Tagged “astronomy”

Saturn rules the evening sky until 15 October, and the Draconid meteors peak on the night of 8 October

Saturn is visible east-southeast just after sunset, Venus sits low in the west, the new moon on 10 October gives the darkest skies, and the…

3 Oct 2026

A fifth planet at L 98-59 sits where water could stay liquid — but it never crosses its star, and that limits what anyone can learn about it

Montréal astronomers confirmed a super-Earth on a 23-day orbit receiving about as much light as Earth. It never transits, so 2.8 Earth…

31 Jul 2025

Saturn’s rings “vanished” on 23 March, and almost nobody could watch — because the planet was in the wrong part of the sky

A ring plane crossing happens every 13 to 16 years. This one fell when Saturn sat low in morning twilight, too close to the Sun to observe…

24 Mar 2025