The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared camera (NIRCam) captured stunning imagery of Neptune, its rings and moons. It ...

Neptune, the majestic blue giant, gazed across the solar system and wondered: what would it be like to be smaller—mysterious and niche, like Pluto? So, he decided to try. But in the world of planets, ...

The space around Uranus just got a bit more crowded.Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced the ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...

On September 5, 1977, the power situation was a good deal healthier when the mission got underway. Launched just over two weeks after Voyager 2, Voyager 1 was scheduled to make flybys of Jupiter and ...

This discovery goes beyond explaining one star’s dusty halo. It provides astronomers with a new diagnostic tool. Eccentricity ...

When 1I/'Oumuamua was first spotted in 2017, astronomers quickly determined that it came from outside the solar system. But ...

The Mississippi River made for a lovely summer backdrop for Mixed Precipitation’s first performance of “ The Return of King Idomeneo ” in the Twin Cities, mashing up Mozart’s 1781 opera “Idomeneo, re ...

While there’s no direct evidence of extraterrestrial life on Ceres (or anyplace but Earth), a new study published in Science Advances suggests Ceres may have had conditions suitable for life between 4 ...

Fomalhaut’s eccentric ring has been the focus of intense scrutiny for nearly two decades, and it keeps giving astronomers new ...