The Maine Solar System Model has garnered attention — and tourists — for more than 25 years. Stretching from Topsfield in ...

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On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit around both stars — a first in astronomy. The system’s compact, cold nature ...

For years, a third giant planet remained concealed within the bright dust surrounding Beta Pictoris, one of the most closely ...

When NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches, as early as the end of next month, it will attempt one of astronomy’s ...

NASA is partnering with SpaceX to outfit the Artemis III Orion spacecraft with Starlink laser communications terminals to ...

Using the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers are beginning the largest and deepest survey of the sky. What will they ...

Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to ...

A Maine landmark is back in full orbit.

How to use the Summer Triangle stars — Vega, Deneb and Altair — as a key to unlock your understanding of the night sky.