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

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

Astronomers are investigating a potential hidden planet, dubbed Planet Y, far beyond Neptune. Its gravitational pull is suspected to be causing unusua ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

New observations of a strange object that wobbles around the space between Jupiter and Uranus reveal what looks like a system ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

As 3I/Atlas neared its closest point to the sun in its orbit, the internet was abuzz with curiosity about the comet.

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...