Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon molecule missing from Jupiter and Saturn’s skies. Its ancient, oxygen-poor ...

Saturn will put on a show for professional and backyard astromers alike, and be the brightest and closest it has been to ...

Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) — the most detailed yet of the planet's upper atmosphere — ...

Webb detects silane in a nearby brown dwarf, solving the mystery of the disappearance of silicon in the atmospheres of giant ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a "failed star," or brown dwarf, nicknamed "The Accident." Their results may help solve a long-standing mystery surrounding ...

• Sun rises at 6:30 a.m. and sets at 7:32 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 6:57 a.m. and sets at 6:45 p.m. on the 30th Eight months after its most recent close approach to Earth back in January, Mars is ...

While the weather is quiet, there are some cool things to check out in the night sky, including a trifecta conjunction early ...

In a fascinating new study published in Nature in September 2025, researchers using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovered a breakthrough discovery that solves a long-standing puzzle in ...

See Saturn, a conjunction of the moon, Venus and Regulus this month. Also on Sept. 22, the autumnal equinox brings in a new season. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

A truly majestic sky sight last month was a close pairing of the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, at dawn Aug. 12. It recreated what I and some other researchers think was the first sighting ...

The autumn night sky in Ireland is an observer's treasure-trove and the first celestial event of the season arrives on September 7 with a lunar eclipse and blood moon ...

The moon-planet-star trio are among the brightest objects in our solar system, meaning the impending conjunction should be incredibly easy to spot. A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at ...