Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, November 21 The solar system's seventh planet, the ice giant Uranus, reaches opposition this morning at 7 A.M. EST among the stars of ...

November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as it shines at opposition, though ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

On November 21, Uranus will appear the brightest this year, as it enters apposition, or opposition. The term "opposition" in ...

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

Bundle up and blast off to the far reaches of our Solar System for Ice Giant Night at the historic Cincinnati Observatory.

Chiron, a 200 km icy centaur between Saturn and Uranus, has complex rings and a dust-ice disk, revealing how ring systems ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 280,000 kilometers as they encircle ...

Uranus is the only planet that rotates sideways with a 98-degree tilt. Learn why Uranus spins this way, how its seasons last ...

New observations of a strange object that wobbles around the space between Jupiter and Uranus reveal what looks like a system of rings forming and evolving, even as we watch. The object, named Chiron, ...

In a universe where change usually unfolds over eons, astronomers have gotten a rare front-row seat to watch a small, icy world beyond Saturn build a brand-new set of rings in real time.

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of its own. The rare event is unfolding in real time, giving astronomers a ...