Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

With the release of its first images this month, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun a 10-year mission to help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The observatory will continue the legacy of its ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

This puts Earth at Emporia State’s Sunken Gardens, with the gas giants — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — further south ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of ...

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.

For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar ...