The year 2026 is officially here and is all set to a spectacular one for stargazers. This guide will break down the planetary events, from conjunctions and oppositions to rare planet-star encounters.

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars make up the rocky planets, while Jupiter and Saturn are classified as gas giants. The possibility that Neptune and Uranus are instead rocky giants is consistent with ...

Uranus and Neptune may not be the icy worlds we’ve long imagined. A new Swiss-led study uses innovative hybrid modeling to reveal that these planets could just as easily be dominated by rock as by ...

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Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...

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Astronomers have identified a star system, named HD 110067, where six planets keep steady orbital ratios with one another. This pattern is a resonance, which means each world completes a set number of ...

Surrender the illusions that once comforted you, so you can enter your next era authentically and fully awake The fog is lifting, but what’s revealed could change everything. On Oct. 22, Neptune ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...