Jupiter’s famous clouds aren’t ammonia ice but a murky mix of chemicals, sitting lower in the atmosphere than expected. For years, astronomers believed that Jupiter’s upper clouds — responsible for it ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Five years ago, NASA provided an updated version of the Pale Blue Dot. JPL engineer Kevin M Gill reprocessed the image with modern tools but following the original approach, even receiving inputs from ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

An international collaboration including U-M researchers have used JWST to provide an unprecedented window into the formation of planets around young ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

If the thought of any planet going retrograde causes you to steel yourself for a surge of frustration, crossed wires and ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...