For the last month and change, you might've seen the headlines about the planetary alignment, or a planetary parade, going on in our solar system. And that's true. In January 2025, Venus, Mars, ...

A rare alignment of two exoplanets with their star, marking one of the few known exosyzygies, an astronomical event involving ...

Recently, the research team of Jianli Wang of Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has made progress in the astronomical observation based on ...

For those who love astronomy, both the joy and difficulty of the activity are sitting by your telescope for long hours, continually checking and adjusting it. You may also juggle different software, ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously unknown world may be lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system. The ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our ...