February is one of the coldest and snowiest months across North America before the arrival of spring, and the wintry end to the season inspires the upcoming astronomical sight. The Snow Moon will ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

As far as we know Neptune is the furthest full-size planet in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun some 2.69 billion miles away. But that doesn’t mean astronomers aren’t keeping a close eye on it and ...

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

The 'hot Neptune' planet, named LTT 9779b, is so scorching that its atmosphere should have evaporated, according to ...

There will be six planets visible this time around, including Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. The six planets are visible now, and will remain so until late February.

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn will appear in a row on the evening of 28 February, marking the last time for 15 years that all of the planets will be visible at the same ...

With these aids, you may even be able to see Uranus and Neptune in the night sky as well. If you can’t get a good view of the planets for yourself, however, then you can still watch the event ...

A preliminary look at temperature data shows that the U.S. is likely to have experienced its coldest January average mean temperature since at least 2011, with records going back to 1895.

Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, holds the title of the world’s coldest capital city, with winter temperatures frequently plummeting as low as -40°C and sometimes even as low as -50°C.

Get closer to our solar companions with the best telescopes for seeing planets, just in time for ... from Mars through to distant Neptune? Then you will need a suitable telescope, one which ...

Last month was the coldest January since the notoriously frigid winter of 2010 for areas of South Florida and the Treasure Coast that found themselves socked in by loitering cold fronts and dour ...