Every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, bringing it closer, brighter, and nearly 10 times easier to observe than at ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

Learn more about the planet that's 40 light-years away and resides within a Goldilocks Zone.

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

What appears to be a ripple in space is actually a newborn planet eating its way through its dusty cradle as it orbits its host star. This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, ...

When scientists discovered the first planet orbiting another star in 1995, few outside astronomy circles noticed. That planet ...

Astronomers using the Smithsonian Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea have helped determine the 3D structure of one of the night sky’s most iconic objects — the Ring Nebula.

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Plus, catch Saturn and Neptune at their brightest; spy the "string of pearls" galaxy; and a close encounter of the moon and ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world. The finding overturns long-held theories suggesting that tiny, low-mass ...

The powerful eye of the James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to spot a previously unknown moon whirling around Uranus.

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