While these planets, excluding Mercury, have been visible at night since January, they'll be harder to see as we inch closer to March. Whenever multiple planets are visible, they always appear as ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution ...

According to NASA, this month provides a unique opportunity to view multiple bright planets in one view. "All month after dark, you'll find Venus and Saturn in the southwest for the first couple ...

A combination of the world's most powerful telescopes detected the planets. Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.

“If we start finding methyl halides on multiple planets, it would suggest that microbial life is common across the universe,” said Leung. “That would reshape our understanding of life’s ...

When this happens, the areas of life that the planet retrograding influences will feel particularly unsteady. Lucky for us, along with Mercury multiple planets are currently retrograding. If you’ve ...

Without question, the month of April belongs to Venus. This dazzling planet, which dominated the evening sky from last fall on through the winter, has now taken up residence in the morning sky.

Astronomers have taken unprecedented images of baby planets in a distant star system. The planets are still surrounded by rings of gas and dust from which moons appear to be taking shape.

Many of the planets in our solar system have multiple moons, and some even have dozens of large objects cruising around in orbit around them. Earth, by contrast, has just one large moon.