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A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky throughout January. Six planets will be in alignment for the rest of the month – four of which will be visible with the naked eye, Preston Dyches, ...

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The research, yet to be peer-reviewed, sheds light on what could have changed the orbits of several planets in the solar system.

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

The discovery doubles the known number of these mysterious celestial objects across our solar system that resemble ... reasons why we study small bodies, like asteroids and comets, is because ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...

This month offers incredible views of six planets, including Venus-Saturn conjunction. See the dates for all of 2025's celestial events.