What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

Astronomers have introduced a new class of exoplanets, dubbed “soot planets,” which are believed to be more widespread across ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

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

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.

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

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

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

The comet-like object Chiron has been caught in the process of forming new rings, which could help us understand how these ...

Humanity's drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers' wheels ...