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 ...

Does orbital motion really follow a simple mathematical law? 🛰️ This video shows how to verify Kepler’s Third Law for circular orbits, connecting orbital period and radius through gravitational ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for. Solar prominences and their associated ...

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.

HD 189733 b orbits so close to its star that distance almost stops mattering. The planet was logged in 2005, one of many ...

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