In Photos: See Mercury’s Craters In Rare Close-Ups After Final Flyby
The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.
Not all Hot Jupiters orbit solo, observations suggest
Hot Jupiters are giant planets initially known to orbit alone close to their star. During their migration towards their star, ...
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Discovery of two planets sheds new light on the formation of planetary systems
The discovery of two new planets beyond our solar system by a team of astronomers from The University of Warwick and the ...
Jan 25 will go down in history for this once in a lifetime event in the sky: How and from where to watch in India
Throughout January, stargazers in India can witness a spectacular planetary parade featuring Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, ...
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The Sky This Week from January 3 to 10: Earth’s closest approach to the Sun
The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...
The Brightest Comet of 2025 Is Coming. Here’s How You Can See It Shine
The comet comes from the Oort Cloud, a remote region at the outer edge of the solar system that is believed to contain the ...
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BepiColombo spacecraft flies past Mercury
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The BepiColombo spacecraft was expected to fly less than 200 miles above the ...
How to See the Brightest Comet of 2025
Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...
Neutron star 'mountains' would cause ripples in space-time
Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely ...
Comet Set to Outshine Venus in the Night Sky
A newly-discovered comet might light up the night sky in the coming weeks, possibly shining even brighter than the planet ...
New telescope could finally prove there is an elusive ‘Planet X’ in our solar system
Planet X, also called Planet Nine, is a hypothetical planetary body seven times the mass of Earth lurking behind Pluto. If ...
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New telescope could finally prove there is an elusive ‘Planet X’ in our solar system
There are eight official planets (sorry, Pluto) in our solar system: Mercury, Venus ... But if it does happen, the day Planet X is discovered could be a tad anticlimactic. As Dr Bloomer put ...