Planetary alignment, or conjunction, refers to the apparent close grouping of planets in the night sky as viewed from Earth, not necessarily a perfect linear alignment in space. These alignments occur ...

"It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines a planet as a celestial body orbiting the Sun, possessing sufficient mass for a nearly spherical shape, and having cleared its orbital neighborhood ...

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“Spotting a possible interstellar object is incredibly rare, and it’s exciting that our UH-operated system caught it,” University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy’s John Tonry said following the ...

Recently, the research team of Jianli Wang of Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made progress in the astronomical observation based on ...

A newly captured image has provided an unprecedented view of the third interstellar object to pass through our solar system, sparking excitement in the astronomical community. The object, identified ...

Astronomers have long been aware that planetary systems are not necessarily structured like our solar system. Researchers have now shown that there are in fact four types of planetary systems. In our ...

A rare family of six exoplanets has been unlocked with the help of ESA’s Cheops mission. The planets in this family are all smaller than Neptune and revolve around their star HD110067 in a very ...