While it has faded from view, the night sky still has nightly displays of wonder this week. This includes multiple planets, and even the moon appearing in the Gemini constellation. Unlike the comet, ...

Many of these candidates for life exist around stars that host multiple planets, found the researchers. They also had circular rather than eccentric orbits where the distance to the star is ...

Planetary alignments -- colloquially known as planetary parades -- describe the phenomenon of multiple planets being visible in the night sky at the same time. The two terms are mostly ...

As of early 2012, Kepler has uncovered 17 stars with multiple planets as well as a new class of planets that orbit double and even triple stars. But only a handful of the exoplanets discovered so ...

Most of these planets were discovered using the transit method. though there are other methods as well. Many stars are known to have multiple planets, such as the TRAPPIST-1 system with seven ...

Discovered in 2008, HR 8799 is the very first multiple-planet system beyond our solar system to have its picture taken. This timelapse animation of HR 8799, which includes 7 direct images captured ...

Watch for not one but three meteor showers, plus the year’s last supermoon, and a host of top-notch planet sightings. And, as last month’s eye-popping aurora display proved, the northern ...

Playing crack-the-whip past multiple planets might work in theory but had never been attempted in practice. “I was told, ‘This is impossible; stop wasting my time,’” Flandro recalled.

This includes multiple planets, and even the moon appearing in the Gemini constellation. Unlike the comet, these sights are easy to spot. Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter will all be visible this ...

Daylight savings time means an extra hour of evening stargazing, and November’s night-sky lineup has a host of ways to enjoy it. Watch for not one but three meteor showers, plus the year’s ...

At their magnitude of brightness, they are hard to miss. All planets appear as a bright "star" that does not twinkle. However, if you want to see the features of Saturn and Jupiter — such as ...