The Earth’s axis is at right angles to the line from sun to Earth, the sun is directly over the equator and the lengths of ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the poles of the sun. The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory ...

Saturn's iconic rings will seemingly "disappear" from view this weekend as they align edge-on with Earth for the first time ...

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...

"Such a transition to a glacial state in 10,000 years' time is very unlikely to happen, because human emissions of carbon ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare great planetary alignment. Here's how to make sure you don't miss this ...

Saturn's rings will appear to 'disappear' this weekend as they align edge-on with Earth, a phenomenon that occurs every 13 to ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

After Friday's spectacle, a "planet parade" of this size won't appear in the night sky for several years, experts say.

They occur when the Moon is in the plane of the ecliptic and can be total, annular or partial. Unlike lunar eclipses, these types of eclipses last only a few minutes and can only be seen from a ...