In March 2025, the International Astronomical Union recognised the discovery of a whopping 128 more moons orbiting around ...

Now, using the world's largest radio telescope project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), ...

Skygazers who look up at the moon tonight may be able to spot Saturn below it. Here's when and how to spot the conjunction in Arizona.

Skygazers who look up at the moon tonight may be able to spot Saturn below it. Here's when and how to spot the conjunction in ...

Dive into the birth of the Solar System and discover how a chaotic cloud of gas and dust, collisions, and gravity created a ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Smack dab in the Ring Nebula, astronomers have stumbled upon a massive bar-shaped structure of iron that had previously ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

The Ring Nebula’s iron bar may be just one of many, as astronomers search for similar structures in other nebulae ...

Lineups of planets have often attracted attention for their supposed effects on human affairs—and for several days in early January, five solar system bodies are arranged in a nearly straight line in ...

From Earth, Saturn’s rings look like a razor – tens of thousands of kilometers wide yet only about 10 meters thick in the vertical direction. That knife-edge geometry is a big part of their drama. But ...