A faint flash spotted by a Hawaiian telescope has astronomers worldwide scratching their heads. They suspect it’s a massive ...

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

Pupils from two Devon schools travelled across the solar system—virtually—as part of a hands-on science adventure at We The ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...

Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...

It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

Voyager 1 is going to achieve another monumental feat in a few weeks -- it will be the first spacecraft to travel a light day ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have confirmed the approach of a “wandering planet” into our solar system. This celestial event has sparked a flurry of scientific interest and speculation.

When our Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago, the material in this region should have coalesced into a planet, however, Jupiter's gravitational influence prevented this from happening, stirring ...

The world's first solar magnetic-field telescope operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range has officially become ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, a celestial cloud collapsed, paving the way for our solar system to form. Then, a nebula with strong gravitational pull took shape, kick-starting the birth of the sun. But ...