The best opportunity to potentially see all seven planets is coming up on Feb. 28 around 6:10 p.m. ET, according to Shanahan. Mercury, which is the closest planet to the sun, would be the first to be ...

this project would have been 10 times easier," said team member Erik Petigura, a UCLA physics and astronomy professor. "But the fact is that each star and its collection of planets has its own ...

One of the most fun things about any kind of fiction, video games included, is the potential to take us to new and different worlds. We often take our concept of normal life for granted here on ...

This graph shows a spectrum of one of the planets in the HR 8799 system, HR 8799 e, which displays the amounts of near-infrared light detected from the planet by Webb at different wavelengths ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Eighteen rogue planets that seem to have broken all the rules about being born from a central, controlling sun may force a rethink about how planets form, astronomers said ...

Seven planets will be visibly in the night sky on Feb. 28. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars will be visible with the naked eye. Neptune and Uranus are both out, too, but you’ll need a telescope ...