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With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...
Witness the spectacular and destructive consequences of a collision between the solar system's two largest planets.
An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...
Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the Sun rises Friday, as three celestial bodies will appear in close conjunction.
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...
Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...
A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...
Saturn's Moon Titan Could Harbor Life ... has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that ...
The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon ...