Uranus, the first planet discovered with a telescope ... only — close glimpse of this strange, sideways-rotating outer planet ...

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the ...

Even the icy planets in our solar system such as Neptune, Uranus or Jupiter's moon Europa, might have harboured plastic ice ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

Luna skims by Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter as it grows from a thin crescent to just past First Quarter in the ...

Each planet has a different timeframe for complete rotation around the sun so all ... Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune Two of those planets will require a telescope or high-powered binoculars ...

“These moons are a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments of a smaller number of originally captured moons that were broken apart by violent collisions, either with other Saturnian moons ...

At the time of the equinoxes, the sun appears to move from one hemisphere to the other. The vernal equinox in March is when ...

"These 'irregular' moons have retrograde orbits around Saturn -- traveling around in the opposite direction from the planet's rotation ... for moons around Saturn, Uranus and Neptune." ...

During its crescent phase in the twilight or dawn, you can sometimes see the dark portion of the Moon glowing faintly in the ...