Who’s ready for a “planet parade”? The last planetary alignment was in August 2025, when six planets aligned and four were bright enough to be seen without a telescope. Next week, Mercury, Venus, ...

Uranus and Neptune will also be on the scene, too dim to see with the naked eye. Look to the western horizon at sunset on Feb. 20 to witness an incredible sight, as three planets shine below the ...

THE Moon’s “skin” is cracking as Earth’s lunar pal SHRINKS, scientists say. Rather than being a dead rock whizzing around Earth, our neighbouring moon is still active – ...

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Astronomers have puzzled for years over a strange pattern in the outer solar system. A surprising number of icy bodies far beyond Neptune resemble snowmen, made of two rounded lobes stuck together.

The curious minds at ColdFusion explain how NASA and ESO discovered seven “Earth-like” planets.

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Industry leaders team up to develop next-generation crystal growth capability WICHITA, KS, UNITED STATES, February 15, ...

In the coming weeks, Artemis II will send humans around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Could it be a ...

I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, today announced at the 2026 Munich ...

Hosseini’s A Sheikh (or Elder) on Mars (2025), an further example of Egyptian sci-fi’s love affair with Mars. The novel ...