While for most people Pluto is the most distant planet in the Solar System, things get a lot more fuzzy once you pass Neptune ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

Planets can even form in some of the most inhospitable parts of the galaxy – so says new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). While attempting to study the planets that may be forming ...

The 11-inch, 1845 refracting Merz und Mahler Telescope. (Image provided) Cincinnati historian and world traveler Bonnie Speeg sent a note this past week: “I just emailed you a PDF of the ...

On Saturday, ULA said the Atlas V 551 rocket will send the second Kuiper mission into Low Earth Orbit on Monday, June 23. The launch is scheduled for 6:54 a.m. EDT at the opening of a 30-minute ...

Take two: United Launch Alliance now aims to launch an Atlas V rocket on Amazon's second Project Kuiper broadband satellite mission at 6:54 a.m. Monday, June 23, seven days after a scrub.

Take two: United Launch Alliance now aims to launch an Atlas V rocket on Amazon's second Project Kuiper broadband satellite mission at 6:54 a.m. Monday, June 23, seven days after a scrub.

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

The story begins with a puzzle in the outer solar system. Scientists noticed that small icy bodies called Kuiper Belt Objects, which orbit far beyond Neptune, seem to be clustered together in ...