"We reference the planets as symbols to better understand our lives," PEOPLE's resident astrologer Kyle Thomas says Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital Entertainment. She joined ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies. On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets in the Solar System will appear in the night sky at the same time, with ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest Earth approach on Dec. 19, offering astronomers a rare chance to study a visitor from beyond the solar system ...

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Space is a very big place, and as such, it's full of mysteries that scientists can't explain. Some of this is simply because it's impossible to fully observe, thanks to its sheer size and the ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

In 2024, we'll have much to look at in our wonderful solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When will we be able to see ...

A planet's year length depends on its distance from the Sun. Planets closer to the Sun have shorter years. A planet's rotation speed is unrelated to its year length. Planets' orbital speeds vary ...

A four-year-old boy's curiosity about planets has inspired him to write his first children's book. Viaan Mundeja-Gupta, who is fascinated by the cosmos, came up with an imaginative story about making ...

Stargazers who have heard of an amazing planetary alignment coming later in January may be in for a letdown if they look up at the night sky expecting to be dazzled. Yes, six planets will be visible ...

It was May 2013, and the Kepler space telescope was dead. The Kepler planet-hunting mission had been discovering new planets since its launch in 2009, but in May 2013 the second of its four reaction ...