With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

Josh Dury / SWNS “I managed to capture a panorama image of the seven planets, AKA – the planetary parade,” Dury told SWNS. “It is made of nine images, revealing Saturn, Mercury and Neptune.

If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Getty Images Stargazers will be able to enjoy the sight of the planets on a clear night through January and February, culminating with seven visible all at once (Credit: Getty Images) While ...

According to NASA, multi-planet lineups are visible "every few years," but a seven-planet alignment is particularly uncommon, as each planet's orbit varies, with some moving more quickly and Mercury, ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

The Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) has provided some of the clearest images ever taken of planets forming around a ...

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...

An advanced imaging system developed at the University of Arizona boasts a shape-shifting mirror that delivers observing ...