See the Moon meeting Venus, plus Jupiter and the Beehive Cluster meeting in the night sky live, from your home. After their splendid conjunction just one week ago, Venus Venus and Jupiter, now gradually...
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Planets Venus and Jupiter are offering a stunning show on the western horizon, soon after sunset. See them live, from the comfort of your home. On 9 June 2026, Venus and Jupiter will shine...
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The Perseverance rover photographed the Margin Unit (Mars 2020 mission, sols 1005–1006) in the Jezero Crater. The inset images show spectroscopic mineral data from the rover’s SuperCam instrument suite. Credit: Navcam image: NASA/JPL-Caltech; SuperCam mosaics: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/IRAP
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Donald Trump has a hang-up about Pluto. As far back as 2019, his appointed NASA administrator was making noise about reclassifying it as a planet, a status it lost when in 2006 the International Astronomical Union created a new system of nomenclature for all those weird and wacky bodies hurtling around the sun. Pluto, long a staple of the Big Nine and a famous childhood acrostic, was now a "mere"…
Saturn’s rings and its largest moon, Titan, are seen by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
The Rubin Observatory sits at 2,647 meters (8,684 feet) above sea level at Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), CC BY 4.0
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), jointly operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, recorded this video of eruptions from the Sun during the 2024 May events. Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA), ESA Standard License
A violent collision between two young planets offers clues to Earth's own chaotic origin story.
LHS 1903 is a small red M dwarf star orbited by a rocky planet and two gaseous planets. In a recent study, scientists used the European Space Agency’s CHEOPS satellite to investigate a fourth planet in this system and discovered that it might be rocky, like Venus. This is surprising because a planet order of rocky-gaseous-gaseous-rocky in a planetary system is rarely observed in the universe.…
On February 28, there will be six planets visible in the evening sky, a full-blown planetary parade, at least for those with some special equipment and a bit of luck. However, some online discussions about the planetary parade are extremely misleading.
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As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.