Though English astronomer John Flamsteed was the first person to record observations of Uranus in the 1690s, he thought it was a star. Sir William Herschel gets the credit for identifying it as a ...

Chiron, an asteroid-comet hybrid discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal, is currently in retrograde motion until January 2026.

If you’re like most people, you’ve never heard of it. Meet the ringed asteroid-comet hybrid prowling the outer reaches of the ...

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...

Chiron, an asteroid-comet beyond Jupiter and Saturn, is currently in retrograde, appearing to move backwards in the sky until January 2026.

Chiron went into retrograde (that is, apparent retrograde motion) on July 30, 2025, and will go back to normal on January 2, 2026. But unless you have a telescope or do some long-exposure photography, ...

Chiron is a member of the Centaurs — a group of small solar system bodies that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.

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Uranus is windy, too (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto) It’s getting hot and, er, gassy on Uranus. A deep, long probe of the bluish gas giant has revealed that it leaks far more heat than it ...

Uranus Has A New Dance Partner Orbiting The Sun Every 113 Years – And Might Even Be In A Throuple Neptune, too, might have a new companion around.