The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

These alignments happen because of specific orbital speeds and paths of the planets around the sun, he explains. This January, a stunning six planets aligned in the night sky: Venus, Mars ...

Astronomers have made a breakthrough discovery suggesting that super-Earth exoplanets are not only widespread across the ...

Bat-Men On The Moon! One August morning in 1835 ... which explained Mercury's orbital discrepancies, for the idea to be laid to rest. The observations of the phantom planet were either wishful ...

The moon's grand canyons were carved in the blink ... new data that it should become clear whether the tell-tale orbital patterns they've been seeing really hold up to scrutiny.

Ancient astronomers were aware of many lunar cycles, including the phases, eclipses, and various orbital patterns, but they couldn’t detect the gradual retreat we now measure with lasers. The ...

Essentially, it is as it sounds, meaning the moon will appear at its smallest, particularly in comparison to supermoons which fall in the opposite part of its orbital cycle. Scientific ...

The sudden release of energy within the star can be caused by disruptions to the star’s magnetic field, variations in convective patterns within ... G1), which has an orbital period of 422 years. The ...