Six planets are linking up in the sky at the end of February, and most will be visible to the naked eye. It's what's known as ...

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn and Neptune will be visible in the night sky this week. Here's what you need to know.

O n the outer edge of our solar system, past Neptune’s orbit, lies the Kuiper Belt, a wide band of small bodies drifting ...

For the first time, a much younger version of the sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble—called an "astrosphere" ...

Astronomers studying a dim red dwarf star called LHS 1903 have found a four-planet system with an architecture that defies ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, might have formed after a collision with a lost moon, according to new research.

Four planets visible to the naked eye are lining up across the western sky after sunset this week, and the window to see them at their best is closing fast. Venus, Mercury, Saturn, and Jupiter form a ...

It is possible to have a comet lose gas in a way similar to that of a leaky valve and still shock the work of navigation ...

The moon returns to our evening sky this week. If you step outside as darkness falls, you can watch as it changes its phase — from a crescent in the west, ...

Winter is the shortest season of the year here in Butler, at least astronomically. Weather-wise though it’s a whole different story! Even if you enjoy this season, winter starts to get a little old ...

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...