Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...

Two retrograde planets align on Wednesday, bringing special energy into each zodiac sign's love horoscope for July 16, 2025.

The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

For the photographers honored at the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards, the universe is their muse. From our ...

Astrophotographers have snapped stunning shots of a giant shapeshifting solar prominence, dubbed "The Beast," which appeared over the sun's northeastern limb on July 12 and rained impossibly fast fire ...

Parker Solar Probe Goes Where No Other Spacecraft Has Ever Gone, and Gets the Most Detailed Images of Sun The Sun is the centre of the solar system, and also the "apple of the eye" for many ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images — taken closer to the Sun ...