Venus transits, those infrequent occasions when Venus passes directly between Earth and the Sun, happen in eight-year pairs ...

The moon will occult Mars in a rare astronomical event on Jan. 13, coinciding with the month's full Wolf Moon that peaks on ...

Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), an international team ...

The meridian transit telescope, working with a chronograph and accurate astronomical clocks, is capable of making extremely precise measurements of star positions. The right ascension of a star can be ...

More information: Kento Masuda et al, A Fourth Planet in the Kepler-51 System Revealed by Transit Timing Variations, The Astronomical Journal (2024). DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/ad83d3 ...