Mars' unique topography, with low-lying northern plains and elevated southern highlands, is linked to internal magnetic ...

The seven planets will not be perfectly aligned, but will appear in an arc across the sky due to their orbital plane in the ...

Planetesimal belts, remnants of the planet formation process, hold a wealth of clues about planetary systems beyond our own. These belts, analogous to the Kuiper and asteroid belts in our Solar System ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu has returned with a $1 billion sample that could rewrite everything we know about ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will resume public viewing after the holidays when students return to campus ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a planet so extraordinary it has defied all existing ...

Astrophysicists have imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them. The crystal-clear images show light being emitted from these millimeter-sized ...

While most exocometary belts in the latest study are disks, some are narrow rings. Some even have multiple rings/disks that ...