The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...

A ‘planetary parade’ is a rare celestial event which looks as if all the planets, have been aligned on a single line, very ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

Welcome to WTOP’s inaugural monthly feature of “What’s up in the sky?” Here’s what D.C. stargazers can watch for regarding ...

Mysterious Neptune Dark Spot Detected from Earth for the First Time Aug. 24, 2023 — Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere ...

It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spent more than thirty years ... Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, each home to a unique set of atmospheric variables. OPAL data has allowed astronomers to observe weather ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing its 35th anniversary and skywatchers can celebrate the mighty telescope with a ...