The sky is ‘smiling’ at you – quite literally! Skygazers around the globe are in for a magical treat this weekend, as three celestial bodies are set to come into a miraculous alignment to form a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Seven planets, along with the sun and the moon, align across the sky above Earth's Mendip Hills ...

It's not for nothing that a gigantic comet has come to be known as the "devil comet." As the celestial body makes its slow journey around the sun, amateur astronomers have noticed that the gas and ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies in the outer solar system. They had expected to find that the surfaces of ...

The SwRI-led Lucy mission will survey eight asteroids in 12 years with one spacecraft, breaking records in its epic journey to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. (Photo courtesy of SwRI via Courthouse News) ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) as they encircle the giant planet. But smaller ...