Since Pluto was relegated to dwarf planet status, almost everyone has agreed that there are eight planets in our solar system ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of object that lies between a star and a planet—orbiting a small star about 55 ...

Astronomers have found GJ 251 c, a rocky planet. It is a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away. This planet is in its ...

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

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

The Universe still holds many surprises, as demonstrated by this exceptional observation of a dying star devouring the ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

An interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS has just passed our sun. Despite online rumours that it’s an alien spaceship, experts say it’s definitely a comet.

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

Our solar system now, once again, officially consists of only eight planets. Although largely debunked, speculation continued ...

Astronomers have identified GJ 251 c, a super-Earth exoplanet just 18 light-years away, orbiting within its star's habitable ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that stoked controversy following claims that it had been detected on Venus and ...