Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system ... be visible without binoculars or telescope. If you're looking south, you ...

Whenever news of a rare celestial event makes the headlines - be it a passing comet, meteor shower or a parade of planets - it makes one wish for two things: a telescope and a pitch-black garden ...

HONG KONG, Jan 21 (Reuters) - China broke its own records for new wind and solar power installations again last year, official data showed on Tuesday, accelerating from a breakneck pace set in ...

Construction of a giant celestial solar farm is underway in China, with a scale comparable to creating a "Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth". The solar farm, which would be launched into ...

But such events are not just a spectacle for stargazers – they can also have a real impact on our Solar System and offer ... Neptune require binoculars or a telescope to spot.

Credit: NAOJ The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different from those in our Solar System, by piercing through thick cloud ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawai‘i is adding a new instrument to its arsenal, one that will observe the cosmos through a compound eye. The compound eye will allow Subaru to observe about 2,400 ...

The high-precision observatory consists of four 27-foot-wide (8.2 meters) telescopes that act as one ... first ever image of a planet outside the solar system and uncovered the elusive cosmic ...

The primary objective of this spacewalk is to replace critical hardware and repair the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray telescope. Listen to Story Williams and Hague will ...

A sunspot captured by the Inouye Solar Telescope. Image source: NSO/AURA/NSF Every solar flare that erupts and every bit of material the Sun ejects towards our planet is a possible geomagnetic event.

Scientists have classified a novel category of exoplanets spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope that appear to have no equivalent in our solar system. This newly proposed category of exoplanet, ...

Video of the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. The camera pans along the Andromeda Galaxy's vast disk which is over 200,000 light-years across. (Credit: ...