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 ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might ...

A star’s flyby likely altered the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects beyond Neptune that changes how we view the solar ...

Our Solar System has eight planets, and each has a year of a different length. That has to do with their distance from the ...

Comet A3 is a long-period comet from the Oort Cloud, a sphere around our solar system home to millions of comets, and it's in ...

Celebrate a Harvest Moon lunar eclipse and an occultation of the planet Saturn, just days before Neptune reaches opposition.

NASA is working on discovering exactly what time it is on the moon by creating a standardized time zone. The space agency ...

These cosmic bodies’ dimensions span the spectrum from diminutive celestial pebbles a few hundred feet across, to the ...

Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners announced including nebulae, skyscapes, and more.

Interplanetary travel is the focus of the first concert of the Aiken Symphony’s 2024-25 season. Set for Friday, Sept. 20, the ...

Silver (XAG/USD) trades with a positive bias around the $30.80-$30.85 area during the Asian session on Tuesday and remains ...