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"This planet's atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works."

A parade of seven planets is set to appear in the night sky this month, and it will be the last of its kind until 2040. Astronomers have shared how to catch the cosmic display.

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), they found ...

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest winds on any planet ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of a collision are being refined ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but as astronomers make more observations about its trajectory, the odds of a collision seem to be increasing ...

That city-killing space rock now has even better odds of ruining everyone's day by instantly vaporizing them. We're talking spin-the-roulette-wheel-to-find-out-if-we're-gonna-die odds. Remember that pesky asteroid 2024 YR4 we've been tracking?

A space telescope has made a significant discovery, uncovering its first Einstein ring, which scientists believe will help us understand the universe better.

NASA / ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captures sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 5460 with a hazy central bar, located 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. This galaxy actually hosted two recent supernovae named SN 2011ht and SN ...