It's unlikely you'll be able to walk outside and see a line of planets, but according to NASA, a seven-planet parade happening tonight could be visible in some form in parts of the U.S. The upcoming ...

TRAPPIST-1 looks small and calm from Earth. Up close, it is anything but. The cool red star about 40 light-years away erupts with bursts of energy many times each day, sending radiation racing across ...

A stunning photo of a "parade of planets", shows Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, and Mercury in alignment from Earth. The image could be the first of its kind. When you purchase through ...

Astronomers call it KOI-134, and it's a star located 3,747 light-years away from Earth. Despite the huge distance that separates us, we've known it was there for more than a decade now, ever since the ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 light-years from Earth, putting them in contention as targets of missions for future human generations. When you purchase ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

On any given night, it's likely that knowledgeable stargazers will be able to spot at least one bright planet shining in the night sky. Because they don't happen every year, such cosmic displays tend ...

(CNN) — February ends with a treat for sky-gazers: a parade of seven planets across the night sky, including Mercury, Uranus and Neptune alongside typically bright planets such as Mars, Venus, Jupiter ...

(CNN) — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also ...