The cold and remote planets originally earned their label of "ice giants" to contrast their interiors from those of Jupiter ...

Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

Night sky update for December 17, 2025, covering the moon phase, visible planets, meteor showers, and key space and astronomy news from today ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

The world's most expensive infrared spectrometer - the James Webb Space Telescope - is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet ...

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

Join Tri-State Astronomers Dec. 13 at Fort Frederick State Park for a free star party featuring the Geminid meteor shower and ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have spotted unusual gases in the air of a planet called K2-18b, which ...

This interstellar vagabond is only the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered — an asteroid or comet ...

Lowell Observatory astronomer Dr. Qicheng Zhang has captured the first ground-based optical images of Comet 3I/ATLAS ...

The Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf that were orbiting distant stars, a discovery ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...