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Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn ever year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems ...
A stronomers at the Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory (PVOL) are appealing for help, after an image taken by ...
Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...
A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...
Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...
For the first time in 15 years, you can see a game of shadows across Saturn. You won't see it again until 2040.
American space agency NASA announced the discovery of a planetary system that isn't flat, has transit timing variations, and shows orbital planes tilting ...
Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...
Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...
Watch the waning gibbous moon, Saturn, and Neptune meet in the night sky around midnight on July 16. The trio will travel ...
Webb Telescope captures TWA 7 b, a Saturn-mass planet 50 AU from its star, proving its ability to directly image smaller ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...