The innermost planets straddle nighttime ... of blue-white Spica. Find the outline of a tilted bell dotted by 5th- to 6th-magnitude stars, just fitting in the field of view at 7x.

The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, putting on a spectacular show just six hours after the moon hits its third ...

Now nearing a close conjunction, Saturn and Neptune sit just to the right of the crescent Moon in the morning sky.

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region thought to be largely devoid of objects ...

Jupiter will clash with Neptune, creating feelings of confusion and idealism simultaneously. Discover what this means for ...

A new planet was possibly discovered beyond the planet Neptune. Researchers from the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural Sciences have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet at ...

The TNO, which are described as minor planets that orbit the sun at a greater distance than Neptune, were found on the edge of our solar system. While there are plenty of other TNOs in the solar ...

But the heavenly body – possibly a dwarf planet à la Pluto – isn't a frequent visitor. Located beyond Neptune, its extreme orbit circumnavigates the sun once every 25,000 years, taking it ...

Forget Planet 9 — that hypothetical giant in the distant realms of our solar system. Two University of Arizona planetary dynamicists say we should be looking closer in for a body about the size ...

The five dwarf planets recognized by the International ... the massive size of 2017 OF201's orbit compared to those of Neptune and Pluto. Institute for Advanced Study Cheng and his colleagues ...

Six planets will be visible in the night sky this June: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter. Mercury will be visible west of the sunset until July 6. Venus, Mars, Saturn and Neptune ...

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.