A planet parade is basically the nickname given when the planets in our solar system appear to line up in a roughly straight line from the Earth’s perspective. Just after sunset on 28 February, six of ...

Polygon has rounded up the best icy sci-fi planets from our favorite video games, movies, television, and books ...

From Jupiter shining bright to elusive Mercury near the horizon, the much-talked-about planet parade may be subtler than expected.

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again. Six planets will be visible in the night sky at the same time for a couple of weeks. This phenomenon ...

Researchers estimate that the planet has about a 50% chance of being in its star's Hoble zone.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

what if a planet did not need a star at all? This is the provocative question at the heart of an emerging astronomical debate, wherein the discovery of rogue planets-worlds free-floating in the galaxy ...