For observers in India, Neptune will be visible throughout most of the night on September 20-21, rising in the east just as ...

A roundup of the day’s news including local astronomers working with Nasa to find out more about dwarf planet Pluto.

Astronomers stumbled upon Neptune only after the planet Uranus — which William Herschel had found 65 years earlier — was ...

If you are going to look for intelligent life beyond Earth, there are few better candidates than the TRAPPIST-1 star system.

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

Mexico, N.Y. – Malaki Sandejas, 8, loves a dwarf planet. Sitting next to his mom on their couch, he rattles off the five in our solar system. “The dwarf planets are Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres and ...

R esearchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

We are all familiar with our one Moon but other planets have different numbers of moons; Mercury has none, Jupiter has 95 and ...

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

Earth may briefly have had a ring system similar to Saturn ’s over 450 million years ago during a period of unusually intense ...

In an eccentric twist, the hot Jupiter spotted in 2005 was found to be in an orbit just over six days long. The recently ...