Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

Onward and outward, Jupiter rides high to the south in Taurus the Bull at dusk. The waxing near First Quarter Moon meets ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show ...

An international collaboration including U-M researchers have used JWST to provide an unprecedented window into the formation of planets around young ...