A parade of seven planets is set to appear in the night sky this month, and it will be the last of its kind until 2040.

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The Sun is slowly setting, it is a beautiful clear sky, and I am in the northern Prague district of Ďáblice inside a long ...

Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...

Joost Wardenier and Romain Allart, both IREx postdoctoral reseachers who contributed to the study. Credit: Courtesy ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four ...

A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...

You shouldn't set your expectations too high, but it will give you enough of a taste to see whether you want to invest in ...

As yesterday, Jupiter is a bright point of light in the southern sky after sunset, located above the red giant Aldebaran early in the evening before Taurus starts to set. Through a telescope ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has more than doubled in a matter of weeks, according to ...