Yes, there will be six planets above the horizon on Feb. 28, 2026. No, you won't be able to see them with the naked eye. But ...

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Today is Monday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2026 with 318 to follow. Today is President's Day in the United States. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury and Uranus. Evening stars are ...

On Feb. 15, 2021, the World Trade Organization named U.S.-trained Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as director-general, ...

An inside-out planetary system around the star LHS 1903 is turning everything that astronomers know about planet formation upside down.

In fact, the Sun sign is merely one morsel of the ten planets that make up a birth chart (the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto). They each hold a specific ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

In our Solar System, the inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky, and the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gaseous. This planetary pattern – rock then gas - is consistently observed acro ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.