Beyond the asteroid belt lies a realm of giants, rings, and frozen mysteries. This video tours the colossal storms of Jupiter, the graceful rings of Saturn, the sideways tilt of Uranus, and the ...

With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man's Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a ...

For decades, some scientists argued that our solar system showed signs of ancient catastrophe. A missing planet between Mars and Jupiter was believed to have shattered, leaving behind the asteroid ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Earth has the perfect combination of a livable atmosphere and a protective magnetic field that prevents the Sun's harmful radiation and radioactive solar winds from damaging us, allowing us to live on ...

Right from our childhood, we have been taught about reading books, solving puzzles to improve our intelligence, but you will ...

For decades, researchers have been studying the formation of rings around planets like Saturn in an attempt to understand what criteria have to be met in order to make and sustain these rings. It was ...

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev has discovered new ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

There are a host of celestial events to get excited about next year – including a total solar eclipse. Abigail Beall is ...

Since then, astronomers have observed all manner of lensing caused by all manner of bodies—perhaps none as visually striking ...