When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A flaring sunspot appeared in the background of a recent transit photo, at the exact moment the ...

Astronomers at NASA and the University of California at Santa Cruz have launched a Web-based project that has amateur astronomers lining up to have a chance to discover extra-solar planets that ...

On May 9, 2016, Mercury will appear to cross the face of the sun, as seen from Earth in a rare solar transit that occurs just 13 times a century. See visibility maps and charts for the 2016 transit of ...

In June 2012, Hinode probe (of JAXA and NASA), dedicated to the study of the Sun, observed the planet Venus transiting in front of our star. In the next decade, researchers will start probing the ...

A new Mars movie clip gives us a rover’s-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset, while another clip shows the silhouette of the moon Phobos passing in front of the sun. America’s Mars Exploration Rover ...

Astronomers study planetary transits and atmospheric signals using interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, drawing on transit spectroscopy principles and recent observational constraints discussed by Avi Loeb.