Yes, six planets will be visible in the January night sky. And yes, they'll be in a line. But because planets always appear in a line from our Earth-bound vantage, the alignment isn't anything out ...

Mercury is the underdog planet. It's the smallest guy in the neighborhood, and it lives in the roughest part of town—high temperature, strong solar wind. But little Mercury is tough. It's made ...

Corona Borealis is hardly the most famous of the constellations in the night sky. It is perhaps best known as the partial namesake of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, the largest structure ...

In our latest NOVA Lab, we’ve created a game that invites ... players use the transit method to identify stars that seem to have planets orbiting them. This method allows them to calculate ...