The planets offer exciting views in April for both night owls and early risers. Plus, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks in April's third week.

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...

On April evenings, look to the west to spot the bright winter constellations of Orion, Gemini, Taurus, Auriga, Canis Major and Canis Minor. They’ll be gone soon, so check them out while you can.

As Earth and Saturn enter into a parallel vantage point, the planet’s rings would disappear from certain vantage point on ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

Now, Saturn is classically characterized as the planet in the solar system with those rings made of ice and rocks, but if you look at the night sky you might notice that they don’t appear to be around ...

The Geomagnetic Storm Watch alert issued by the Office started at 9pm yesterday, March 22, and will continue until 11.59pm on ...