Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.
A NASA spokesperson said via email that the image above, which appeared on the agency's website, was not the original, but "a ...
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.
On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate ...
Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...
A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.
After a year and a half of moving back and forth between Capricorn and Aquarius, Pluto makes its final entrance into boundary ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found an exoplanet unlike any other. This unique world has an atmosphere almost ...
Within GRAVITY’s combined observations, Xuan’s team discovered that Gliese 229 B was not a single object, but a pair of brown ...
O cean worlds, such as Europa around Jupiter and Enceladus around Saturn, are recent and fascinating discoveries. These moons hide, far beneath their icy crusts, a deep liquid ocean. Other moons and ...