Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has millions of fans worldwide who love the stunning images he captures and creates of the cosmos right from his own backyard. He explains exactly what ...

Trump’s new decor of the Oval Office could reflect the president’s Mars-bias, chucking the lunar rock out of the White House.

Deep in the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, hidden beneath layers of radioactive debris, lies one of the most dangerous ...

Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

Claims of a "rare planetary alignment" are misleading; it's just visible planets. A true "golden conjunction" occurs on Sept.

An alignment of six planets will dazzle in January 2025. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align in the ...

but before 9 p.m. local time There are eight planets in our solar system and one dwarf planet (Pluto). Because we live on Earth, the most we could see is a maximum of seven planets total. However, ...

A planetary parade occurs when multiple planets appear positioned in a line from Earth's perspective Rare planetary parade: 2025 is starting off with a bang for skygazers, with a planet parade coming ...

Mars comes into play when it reaches ‘opposition’ with Earth on Thursday evening, meaning the planet is on the opposite side of Earth from the sun. As a result, Mars is lit up by the sun’s ...