In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

Taejas Venkataraman explores what the discovery of white dwarf pollution can teach us about scientific investigation ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

The recent passage of interstellar comet 3I/Atlas has reignited concerns about the potential dangers of such celestial bodies to Earth.

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

NASA released new images of 3I/ATLAS, the third comet ever to be discovered in Earth's cosmic neighborhood originating from ...

The results show a circular “hotspot” on the side of the planet that always faces its star, surrounded by a cooler ring at ...