Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. November 14: Titan’s reappearing act Dwarf planet 1 Ceres, the ruler of the main belt, is currently making its way through ...
Times listed are from The Sky This Week by Astronomy magazine, calculated for 40°N, 90°W. Central Wisconsin observers can expect sunrise, ...
When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approached Ceres, the team expected dust, craters, and silence. Instead, the dwarf planet ...
Red dwarf hurls plasma at speeds rarely seen from Sun, potentially stripping atmospheres from orbiting planets ...
Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit ...
There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...
The Sky this Week: Celestial choreography unfolds as Mercury meets Mars and Jupiter pauses in Gemini
Wausau Pilot & Review Mercury meets Mars as the Moon wanesCentral Wisconsin skywatchers will find this week packed with ...
Ceres is the largest 'asteroid' in our solar system, big enough that it's actually classified as a dwarf planet, like Pluto.
Discover why Earth's asteroid belt is disappearing and what this means for the future of our solar system, including ...
More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have ...
Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...
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