A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

"Orbiter" is also the term used for spacecraft designed to revolve around planets or moons, exemplified by missions like the Cassini orbiter. The recent lunar transit was observed for about half ...

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That changed in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union declared that the faraway orb was a dwarf planet due to its location, known as the Trans-Neptunian region, according to NASA.

Here's which planets will be visible this month. ... Uranus - The blue, green orb of Uranus can be spotted with a small telescope and good magnification under calm seeing conditions, ...