Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction this weekend, appearing side by side in the night sky during January's post-sunset ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring […] And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire; the ring of fire.” This ...

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

Top notch amateur photographer Damian Peach took this Saturn picture three years ago, when the planet’s rings were angled ...

Nasa said that the purple space lumps surrounding the planet are massive clouds of X-rays. Some of these lumps are even ...