The planets offer exciting views in April for both night owls and early risers. Plus, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks in ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

Einstein rings are fascinating astronomical phenomena caused by gravitational lensing. When light from a distant object ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first-ever clear images of auroral activity on Neptune, the 8th planet ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...

Does it rain diamonds on Neptune and Uranus? Scientists uncover how extreme pressure and temperature deep inside these ice giants create a continuous diamond rain.

Saturn’s iconic rings are dissolving due to “ring rain,” as icy particles spiral into the planet. Astronomers predict they ...

This scenario occurs every 13 to 15 years. Saturn's rings aligning in a perfect manner with our line of sights. This ...

This wider view of the Uranian system with Webb’s NIRCam instrument features the planet Uranus as well as six of its 27 known moons (most of which are too small and faint to be seen in this short ...