"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

James Webb Telescope Discovers Strange Planet with Carbon Atmosphere Surrounding a Pulsar!

In this latest data mining, scientists unexpectedly discovered two planets with extremely unusual orbits, whose trajectories differ dramatically from the known patterns of planetary orbits. In our ...

Our Solar System contains eight planets (sorry, Pluto) orbiting around the Sun. But while all planets are important members of the club, if we’re being honest, we know there’s a crown jewel of our ...

Could a vagabond giant from the outermost regions of interstellar space be poised on the cusp of sweeping by our cosmic doorstep? Astronomers say yes and they have the data to support it. Using the ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

The James Webb Space Telescope will help scientists look for signs on life on other planets. Adapted from NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt, T. Pyle (IPAC) In June, astronomers reported a disappointing ...

Technological limitations for manufacturing large, round telescopes has experts considering unconventional shapes to improve ...