A newly discovered dwarf planet could hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our solar system’s outer reaches — but what ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...

The comet-like object Chiron has been caught in the process of forming new rings, which could help us understand how these ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

Astronomers are investigating a potential hidden planet, dubbed Planet Y, far beyond Neptune. Its gravitational pull is ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have performed infrared observations of a planetary debris disk ...

The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...

The simulation of the Solar System that came the closest to the observation was the presence of a small planet, between the ...

Pluto, the king of the underworld, was the ancient Romans' embodiment of death itself. Known as Hades in Greek mythology, ...

It will be a while before you can see it for yourself, however. Halley’s comet was last visible from Earth in 1986, meaning ...

Planets do not emit visible light like stars; they shine in the sky because they reflect sunlight. Exoplanets too reflect starlight, and nobody does it better than LTT9779b. This world reflects 80 ...