Journey beyond the asteroid belt to explore the solar system's majestic giants and mysterious outer reaches. We break down ...

Uranus sits far beyond the orbit of Saturn, yet its smallest moons are suddenly at the center of a quiet revolution in outer ...

The waning moon shines close to the king of the planets on Dec. 7. Don't miss Jupiter shining close to the waning gibbous ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

A full moon at its closest point to Earth: December opens this week with a full moon, dubbed the “Cold Moon,” that also ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has gone farther than any other spacecraft in history. Launched in 1977, it is a historic ...

To catch the Geminids peak, look to the eastern sky all evening on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14. The meteors will appear near the bright planet Jupiter. NASA predicts that with the darkest possible skies, ...

Normally," rings around a planet are created from the remnants of meteors, moons or left over planet pieces. But this is not the case in NASA's new discovery.

There are a host of celestial events to get excited about next year – including a total solar eclipse. Abigail Beall is ...

For lovers of astronomy Saturn’s “disappearing rings” on Sunday will be a rare and fascinating event but for believers in ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien ...