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This phenomenon, sometimes called a planet parade, offers a rare chance to see multiple planets appear close together. Mars and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye, but a telescope is needed to ...

Mars passes 0.1° south of Uranus in Taurus the Bull at 1 A.M. EDT. By about an hour before sunrise, roughly 4:30 A.M. local daylight time, you’ll find both planets some 16° high in the east, between ...

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter. The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the ...

We have an idea of what the solar system's past was like: It was violent and chaotic. However, we are still studying how violent it was. Current models suggest that at some point after their formation ...

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The universe is filled with planets that defy imagination. From worlds that rain molten metal to giants light enough to float, this video uncovers the weirdest discoveries. Dive into the science ...

Climate researchers have long documented something about a warmer world that’s hard even for non-scientists to miss: It doesn’t rain, it pours. Intense, concentrated rainstorms have been on the rise ...

The rings that encircle Uranus may look similar in images, but their compositions are surprisingly different. Understanding the rings could help us unravel the many mysteries of this strange, dynamic ...

The rings around Uranus have mystified astronomers for almost half a century. Now, thanks to a combination of ground- and space-based telescopic observations, scientists think they’ve worked out where ...

The cold, icy world of Uranus is framed by a pair of rings that orbit the planet at twice the distance of its main ring system. Each ring tells a different story — the outermost ring appears blue, ...