A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, marking the first time that execution ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

At a pair of benefits on this exclusive island, many well-heeled guests were holding their tongues when it came to politics.

Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.

Minutes after this image was captured from the Starbase site ... Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — lined up on the same side of the sun. Dury photographed this rare cosmic event ...

In 2023, astronomers discovered 62 new moons of Saturn, bringing its total to 145 moons and surpassing Jupiter. More recently ...

In an effort to conserve Voyager 2's dwindling energy and extend the spacecraft's mission, NASA has shut down another of its ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...