Scientists spot a large cloud of iron atoms in shape of a bar stretching about 3.7 trillion miles (6 trillion km) long across ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Four of the planets, which are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, are bright enough to be spotted with the naked eye in ...

Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

From the deck of a ship or the window of a plane, it feels obvious that “down” points toward Earth and “up” points toward the ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

Scientists who work on long-term climate patterns usually stay close to Earth. The data is here, the records are clearer, and ...

A strange strip of metal-rich gas in deep space is giving astronomers an unsettling glimpse of how worlds like ours might die ...

SMC Planetarium offers solar system and black hole shows in January and February, with tickets $7-16. Shows run Fridays at ...