How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

Sedna will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, providing a remarkable space-faring opportunity that won’t come ...

The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

The planet, which astronomers believe is orbiting a young red dwarf star approximately 34 light years away, has been dubbed ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

There could be life out there—way, way out there. Last Wednesday, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had discovered “compelling evidence” of a planet that is potentially habitable. The ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...