Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all twist and ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.

In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, Scientia Senior Lecturer Ben Montet and PhD candidate Brendan McKee analysed changes in the timing of a known ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.

See storm names, early weather forecast What makes a planet easy or hard to see? The issue is mostly about how high over the horizon a planet is, according to NASA. Ten degrees or higher over the ...

In the eyes of the general public, it typically means that we can see multiple planets at once. Interestingly, they'll always appear along the same arc in the night sky. That path is called the ...

Well, truthfully, not much. A planetary alignment occurs "when the planets 'line up' on the same side of the sun, generally speaking," Gerard van Belle, Lowell Observatory's director of science ...

Six planets are visible in the night sky right now. On Feb. 28, Mercury will add a seventh planet to the planetary parade. Venus, Mars and Jupiter are 'great naked-eye targets' for beginning ...

These events, often called "planet parades" or "planetary alignments," though not exceedingly rare, are worth observing since they don't happen yearly. Listen to Story Lineups of four or five ...

Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, and Saturn will align in February Mercury and Saturn will appear closest on February 24 Best viewing is at dusk with a clear west-southwest horizon ...