Earlier this year, a team of astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus that is minuscule, with a diameter of about 10km.

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has obtained evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is electrically active, detecting electrical discharges - what one scientist called "mini-lightning" - often associated with ...

On November 21, Uranus will appear the brightest this year, as it enters apposition, or opposition. The term "opposition" in ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

Nearly 2½ centuries ago, in December 1781, musical composer and amateur astronomer William Herschel was scanning his telescope through the skies over ...

The housing: The buildings surveyed in the report contained more than 3,000 single-room occupancy units in total. These are ...

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.

Chiron, a 200 km icy centaur between Saturn and Uranus, has complex rings and a dust-ice disk, revealing how ring systems form even around small worlds.

Bundle up and blast off to the far reaches of our Solar System for Ice Giant Night at the historic Cincinnati Observatory.

Rumi The week of Thanksgiving and the season of gratitude begins. The Sun is now in Sagittarius. We shifted from the waters (Scorpio) to the plains (Sagittarius); from the eagle to the horse; from the ...

NASA's Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield—and the planet Uranus—on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one ...