Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be chemically active.

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Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? July holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel ...

The initiative is named after the Kuiper belt, a doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies in our solar system extending far beyond the orbit of Neptune – the farthest planet from the sun.

Scientists have proposed two experimental spacecraft that could reach one of the farthest known objects in the solar system ...

Interestingly enough, Neptune, which is the closest planet to Pluto, crosses orbits with the dwarf planet. Pluto is inside Neptune's orbit for a whopping 20 years.

In the frozen outskirts of the solar system, a reddish dwarf planet orbits in silence. Known as Sedna, it is so distant that ...