In the skies of Earth in February, six of the seven other planets—all except Mars—can be seen in the early evening, but not all at once.

Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system.It’s about the length of eight football fields — but it fully rotates every two minutes, or even a little faster ...

Now, using the world's largest radio telescope project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), ...

These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

Dive into the birth of the Solar System and discover how a chaotic cloud of gas and dust, collisions, and gravity created a ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Smack dab in the Ring Nebula, astronomers have stumbled upon a massive bar-shaped structure of iron that had previously ...

The Ring Nebula’s iron bar may be just one of many, as astronomers search for similar structures in other nebulae ...

Since the Kepler Space Telescope began its prowl for exoplanets in 2009, it has uncovered a strange pattern among these alien worlds: their orbits follow a consistent rhythm. If one planet in a system ...

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CAPITOLA — Santa Cruz County leaders approved plans to build a new and improved local public safety radio system at its Tuesday meeting despite concerns from stakeholders and community members about ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening and observe the sixth planet in our solar system, Saturn. Point any size telescope at it, and you ...