In a once-a-year event, Saturn is about to reach opposition, with the ringed planet appearing its best and brightest as it ...

Mike Brown is convinced that beyond Neptune, at the far reaches of our solar system, there's an unseen giant planet. "This is the 5th largest planet in our solar system, lurking out there, waiting to ...

NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date. “This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler,” said Ellen ...

An iceberg that was once labelled as the biggest in the world has been breaking apart in the Southern Ocean--to such an ...

After spinning in a vortex for months, the world’s largest and oldest iceberg is on the move again. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey announced on Friday that the colossal iceberg, ...

Observations of 1 Ceres, the largest known asteroid, have revealed that the object may be a “mini planet,” and may contain large amounts of pure water ice beneath its surface. The observations by NASA ...