Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Beautiful photos of the six planets aligned in the night sky have emerged online. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and ...

Lowell Observatory will be hosting the 2025 I Heart Pluto Festival from Feb. 13 to 17, celebrating the planet and its ...

Amazon is providing a sneak peek at satellite containers that are being shipped to Florida for the launch of its Project ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin (6) before the gameagainst the Pittsburgh Pirates at ...

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars.

Astrophysicists have achieved a major breakthrough by capturing images of exocomet belts around 74 nearby stars. Using the ...

An incredibly rare sight can be seen in the Australian skies until Thursday - and won't reappear for another 800,000 years.

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is.

NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.