Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

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Flag football in the Olympics will be non-tackling and played on a 50-yard field that is 25 yards wide with two 10-yard end zones. The International Federation of American Football has tabbed ...

“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 ...

Word is sure getting around about the "parade of planets" visible in our evening sky! Many of the news outlets and social media sites are posting articles or stories about the planets strung out ...

Astronomy buffs call it a “parade of planets.” And most of them can be seen with the naked eye except for Neptune, which will require a telescope. Uranus and Mercury will require binoculars.

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 ...

These instruments measure what's termed 'radial velocity' — the amount by which a star wobbles around the center of mass that it shares with its planets. In general, the larger the wobble ...

They also checked to see if any of those dips in light curves might have been caused by second planets orbiting the same star but came up empty-handed. While seven additional candidate exoplanets ...