Earth's mesmerizing northern and southern lights — the auroras — have captivated humans for millennia. But our planet isn't ...

Venus will pass to the north of the much-fainter bluish star Regulus (in Leo, the Lion) on the morning of Sept. 19; the planet and star will appear low in the east-northeast predawn sky, separated by ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...

The Sun is an incandescent but benevolent dictator. For billions of years, it's kept our Solar System well organized and ...

Carrying out simulations to try and discover what best explains the orbits of these objects, the team found that a model that ...

The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old. Astronomers believe that roughly 100 million years into its existence, the planets first began to form in a rotating, flat cloud of gas ...

Astronomers directly detected the light emitted by a sub-Neptune exoplanet -- a ... Feb. 8, 2023 — Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System.

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

The solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years old. Astronomers believe that roughly 100 million years into its existence, the planets first began to form in a rotating, flat cloud of gas around ...