An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

A TERRIFYING alien planet that “rains glass” lurks just 64.5 lightyears from Earth. Described as a “nightmare world” by Nasa, the giant exoplanet has staggeringly fast ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

Stargazers can witness a rare 'planet parade' in January and February 2024, where six planets align prominently in the night sky. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn can be seen with the naked eye, while ...

Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...

Finding a world like Earth elsewhere in the universe might mean looking for the right kind of solar system. A new discovery ...

It takes Jupiter roughly twelve years to orbit the sun and it spends a year of that sojourn in each zodiac sign, exaggerating the qualities and energies of each. Associated with abundance ...

Four planets will be in the parade in January, while seven will align in February. Here's how to see the events.

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

It actually follows its own tiny elliptical orbit around what is called the center ... accelerated by the gravity of either Jupiter or the sun itself, said Bloomer. For comets, the period around ...

While the Sun's gravitational pull is by far the largest force affecting a comet's orbit, the comparatively weaker gravity of planets can still influence comet orbits in significant ways. As the ...