Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s biggest planet. New data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft ...

From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best ...

Stargazers can see six planets all in one evening during the second month of the year, especially Mercury, which is usually ...

From dazzling new moons to dramatic eclipses, February has countless opportunities to witness life-changing astronomical ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

From a rare lunar occultation of Regulus and a six-planet parade to an annular solar eclipse, there will be plenty going on in the night sky in February 2026.

A planet parade is basically the nickname given when the planets in our solar system appear to line up in a roughly straight line from the Earth’s perspective. Just after sunset on 28 February, six of ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Jupiter, without a doubt, is ⁠the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large – by ...