For observers in India, Neptune will be visible throughout most of the night on September 20-21, rising in the east just as ...

A roundup of the day’s news including local astronomers working with Nasa to find out more about dwarf planet Pluto.

If you are going to look for intelligent life beyond Earth, there are few better candidates than the TRAPPIST-1 star system.

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

Mexico, N.Y. – Malaki Sandejas, 8, loves a dwarf planet. Sitting next to his mom on their couch, he rattles off the five in our solar system. “The dwarf planets are Haumea, Makemake, Eris, Ceres and ...

Researchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...