Planets do not emit visible light like stars; they shine in the sky because they reflect sunlight. Exoplanets too reflect ...

Astronomers are watching a new comet pass through our solar system with great interest. Based on its glow, the 33-billion-ton ...

I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object racing toward the Sun, is baffling scientists with its speed and origin. Some ...

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

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

Astronomers have made an unexpected and groundbreaking discovery in our solar system—a ring system forming around Chiron, a ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

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

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing them.

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) ...

Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, ...