Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer ...

Worlds Part II was officially announced on January 29 and it takes the game’s already expansive universe to new heights with the inclusion of new star systems and new planets. The update is now ...

Here are some of this month’s highlights. As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky.

The 2025 Planet Parade, visible from January 21 to January 29, showcases the rare alignment of six major planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. This celestial event can be ...

The United Federation of Planets may hold itself up as a futuristic utopia but it also has a dark underbelly. Covert intelligence organization Section 31 carries out the missions Starfleet pretends ...

An alignment of six planets will dazzle in January 2025. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align in the night sky. "The whole month of January is a great time to see the ...

It’s not every day you can step out your front door and see half the solar system with the naked eye. That’s the spectacle visible in Toronto and across Canada right now, as Venus, Saturn ...

Uranus and Neptune can be spotted too, but only by using binoculars and telescopes Look up! Six planets grace the sky this month in what’s known as a "planetary parade," and most will be able ...

The New Year kicks off with a unique astronomical phenomenon - the Planet Parade, when six planets will align and be visible in the night sky for the next five weeks. It is a rare phenomenon.

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...