Hyderabad will witness the rare Zero Shadow Day today at 12:12 pm, when upright objects briefly lose their shadows due to the ...

Scientists studying a region of outer space near Pluto have discovered the unexpected: a celestial body that has an ...

A mysterious comet from beyond our solar system is giving astronomers a rare glimpse into alien worlds — and it may have ...

Worlds this small and distant are thought to be too cold and have too little surface gravity to hold onto gases. But the findings suggest that icy, rocky objects in the solar system's outer reaches ar ...

Two workers monitoring the moon have to figure out a plan to retrieve the stolen satellite in moonwatchers at Lazy Susan.

Pluto was believed to be the only body beyond Neptune with an atmosphere. Now, a new discovery in our solar system is ...

The International Space Station has been in orbit for more than 25 years. Here's how to regularly spot the outpost from Earth ...

As a small celestial body at the edge of the solar system passed in front of a star, an astronomy team found unexpected ...

In the far reaches of our solar system — beyond the outermost planet Neptune — resides a host of icy and desolate celestial ...

Previously Pluto was the only such body thought to have supported an atmosphere, due to its stronger surface gravity.

Astronomers have detected a thin yet rare atmosphere for the very first time beyond Pluto around a small celestial body in ...

A thin atmosphere has been found to exist on one of thousands of trans-Neptunian objects, or TNOs, small celestial bodies outside Neptune, the outermost planet in the solar system, a research team inc ...