Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...

Astronomers have identified a rare sednoid called Ammonite, an icy object beyond Neptune that offers new insight into the ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

The survey, known as ALMA to Resolve exoKuiper belt Substructures (ARKS), focused on debris disks. Debris disks are vast belts of dust and ice left behind after planets finish forming. These ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Four of the planets, which are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, are bright enough to be spotted with the naked eye in ...

Despite decades of warnings, governments and private companies have continued launching missions with little plan for what ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...