Last year, the night sky provided us with not one but two beautiful planetary parades. The snag for the six-planet parade of August is that it happened before dawn. Very inconsiderate for those of us ...

Gas giants are massive worlds made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They lack solid surfaces, and in our solar system, Jupiter ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

Gas giants are enormous planets made primarily of hydrogen and helium. They may contain dense central cores, but unlike Earth, they do not have solid ...

The planets orbit a star around 133 light-years away from Earth.

Idaho has a secret that feels like it was teleported from another planet, and it’s hiding in plain sight just outside a tiny town called Bruneau. Imagine mountains of sand rising from the desert floor ...

At the center of the Egg Nebula is its yolk: a deteriorating sun-like star.

Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. While Cassini's 13-year mission expanded our understanding of ...

New research reveals how quiet galactic engines can help shape entire galaxies.

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM)- Several planets will line up shortly after sunset, on February 28, during a planetary alignment. Six planets will be visible during this event, and four of the planets will be ...

NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) was built for the ambitious purpose of performing an all-sky survey. The data it collects ...

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