A rare grouping of 10 celestial bodies is captured in a stunning new photo taken during last weekend’s great planetary parade.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

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

Space photos remind us that, around every corner of our vast universe, something spectacular awaits. From the newest James Webb Space Telescope images to historic photos of groundbreaking space ...

"You can’t do that with any other large galaxy." Here's how to see it: Planetary alignments aren’t rare, but 6 visible planets are ... as shown in the photo above.

The Milky Way is seen edge-on, meaning that the photo looks across the galaxy’s diameter ... The photo is peculiar in that our planet—so famously blue and green with wisps of white clouds ...

A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests.