Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night sky shines ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, ...

New research suggests there may be a hidden population of minimoons lurking near Earth, with fragments of the Moon traveling ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

An international team used 40 years' worth of data from two space probes to track down what they believe are signs of this ...

Scientists have found what they are calling the strongest sign yet of possible life beyond our solar system after detecting the chemical footprint of gases in an alien planet's atmosphere that on ...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

DUBUQUE, Iowa (KWQC) -An energy source you might want to consider for your home or business comes with so many financial incentives is solar. On the day of the QCL interview (April 22), is ...

Known as a "conjunction", it's a fairly common occurrence for a planet to be seen close to the moon. Two or more planets, known as a "massing", is much rarer. Saturn will be the higher of the two ...