Rings circle the solar system’s largest planets. Saturn has the most famous ring system, but Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus are also home to ...

Millions of miles beyond Pluto in the cold, dark regions of the Kuiper Belt sits another dwarf planet. This one doesn’t have a ...

8.5 billion miles away from the Sun sits a cold world bathed in darkness. Known as 2014 UZ224, it’s the latest dwarf planet ...

You don’t need the latest and greatest telescope to make a discovery. In February, National Research Council of Canada’s Dr. JJ Kavelarrs was ...

The most sophisticated telescopes discover galaxies millions of light-years away. Kepler sees exoplanets hundreds of light-years away. Yet, our solar system holds secrets ...

It took more than 9 years for NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to travel more than 3 billion miles to Pluto. That’s nothing compared ...

NASA achieves another milestone. Its Dawn spacecraft has become the first to orbit a dwarf planet. Ceres’ gravity grabbed ahold of Dawn at ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft captured another image of the dwarf planet, Ceres. You can see the bright spots featured prominently once again. Scientists aren’t ...

Every day NASA’s Dawn spacecraft gets closer to the dwarf planet Ceres. As the distance closes, Dawn is giving us even better pictures ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is lining up its approach on the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn’s mission to Ceres has taken eight years and will ...