Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ...

Two papers showed these intriguing signals, but the team stresses that there are currently many uncertainties to confirming ...

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

Running the models showed that a once temperate, Earth-like Venus experienced a series of "stairstep" events, wherein deep interior motions rupturing the crust allowed for volcanism to reach Venus' ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

"Both of those theories are based on climate models, but we wanted ... The team studied Venus’ atmosphere to understand its interior. Our planetary neighbor’s atmosphere is unchanging, meaning ...

Instead of relying solely on climate models, they analyzed the current ... role in maintaining the atmospheres of rocky planets like Venus. As magma rises from the mantle to the surface, it ...

For much of January and February, you have the chance to see six planets in our solar system after dark, although two — Uranus and Neptune — will be hard to see without a telescope or high-powered ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered exoplanet GJ 1214 b, situated 48 light-years away in the constellation ...

That is, how our planet’s tectonic plates enable large amounts of carbon dioxide to be continually removed from earth’s atmosphere and recycled back into its crust. In contrast, Venus-like ...