"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 ...

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has directly captured images of carbon dioxide in planets beyond our ...

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

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

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

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 ...

The best opportunity to potentially see all seven planets is coming up on Feb. 28 around 6:10 p.m. ET, according to Shanahan.

"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 ...

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

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