Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

Spica is a binary star system located 250 light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the bright star Spica in the night sky tonight, ahead of ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our knowledge of the solar system's "small bodies"—asteroids, comets and other minor planets.. The Rubin Observatory, under ...

A computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

Earth Has A 1-In-100,000 Chance Of Being Ejected From The Solar System Due To A Passing Star A new simulation expands on the possible scenarios of how the Solar System will end. Dr. Alfredo Carpineti ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, was once so big that it could have held 2,000 Earths. Jupiter is our system's oldest planet, forming from the ...

Halley's comet is currently far out in our solar system, and not due back near Earth until 2061. However, back on April 19, Earth crossed into the stream of dusty debris the comet leaves behind as ...

TNOs are important to our understanding of our solar system's origins because they are incredibly well-preserved remnants of the protoplanetary disk—or disk of gas and dust surrounding a young ...

April 5-6 — Mars near the Waxing Gibbous Moon. April 12-13 ... Canada was able to view a Total Solar Eclipse on ... and asteroids that periodically pass through the inner solar system.