Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Earth" planet pretty close to us, just outside our solar system! This planet, called Proxima Centauri b, orbits our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri. It’s called a "Super-Earth" because it’s ...

The growing trend of astrotourism continues to draw new travellers to the wonders of the night sky in places where light ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Saturn is visible in the southern evening sky and is approaching the time when its rings will be edge-on as viewed from Earth. This happens every fourteen ... another ringless disk in a telescope.