"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...

"Alignment means that at this one moment, all of the seven planets can be seen," Shanahan says. "Some will be blazing bright and amazing, while others will require binoculars or a small telescope to ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Saturn, Mercury and Uranus you can see with a pair of binoculars — but Neptune would require a telescope." "And after Jupiter, the farthest east of all of them will be the planet Mars," Cooke ...

Astronomers note that you'll likely need a telescope with at least ... all right next to each other. The planets can never fully line up exactly like you see in pictures, but they can all be ...

Astronomers have discovered not one, but four tiny planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our cosmic neighbor. These planets, each ...

After dusk on Friday night, seven planets are expected to align in the night sky. But you'll need binoculars or a telescope ...

"Some will be blazing bright and amazing, while others will require binoculars or a small telescope to see." Planets are hundreds of thousands of times closer to the Earth than stars, which means ...

The Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) has provided some of the clearest images ever taken of planets forming around a ...