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Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the "planet parade" we've been waiting for?

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

How unfortunate that combust — an astronomically useful adjective — has become all but obsolete. It was once defined as referring to the moon or a planet that is invisible to the naked eye because of ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the ...

Woman wanted after pound of cocaine, $44,000 in cash seized from home in Campbell County A Gretna woman is wanted on a felony drug charge after the Campbell County Sheriff's Office executed a search ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

A stunning photo of a "parade of planets", shows Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, and Mercury in alignment from Earth. The image could be the first of its kind. When you purchase through ...