New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Kick off 2026 with stunning celestial events! Witness Jupiter shining brighter than ever, Saturn’s close encounter with the ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

On January 23, skywatchers will witness a beautiful conjunction of Saturn and the Moon. During a conjunction, celestial bodies appear close together in the sky, although they are actually far apart in ...

If you’ve been seeing an unusually bright ‘star’ in the sky recently, it’s actually Jupiter, which will shine at its ...

Finding a planet is one thing; proving it is a planet when it has no star is the part that usually breaks the story. A newly ...

January nights do not always feel generous. The cold arrives early, clouds linger, and most evenings seem too quiet for ...

On Saturday (Jan. 10), for example, we will see three satellites on one side of Jupiter (going outward from the planet: Ganymede, Io and Europa ), while the fourth ( Callisto) remains all by itself on ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

The biggest planet in our solar system is hovering over the North Carolina skyline throughout January, and stargazers will ...

January 2026 promises skywatchers a celestial spectacle with Jupiter's peak brightness, a Saturn-Moon conjunction, and the ...

Two supermoons — occurring when the full moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth — will close out 2026. At about 226,000 miles away, the moon appears larger and brighter than average, ideal ...