Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Pluto, once considered the ninth planet, was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 because it shares its orbital path with ...

C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) brightened significantly ahead of its close approach to the sun.

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

In astronomy, an occultation is when a celestial body or object — like the moon or a planet — passes in front of a distant ...

Saturn reigns supreme when it comes to the number of moons orbiting any solar system planet. Including the 128 ...

Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, January 9Cygnus may be sinking toward the horizon a few hours ...

From Mercury to Neptune, observers in the United States will get to see this historic planet parade known as a large ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a discovery that turns a once-theoretical idea into a measured reality. The planet ...