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 ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

The Kuiper Belt lies billions of kilometres beyond Neptune — a vast, frozen region filled with icy worlds, dwarf planets, and raw materials untouched since the dawn of the Solar System. Colonizing it ...

A fresh study of the Kuiper Belt’s structure has revived that far-out question, pointing to a possible Earth-sized ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still ...

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

Astronomers have found GJ 251 c, a rocky planet. It is a super-Earth located only 18 light-years away. This planet is in its ...

A strange white dwarf system is pulling a nearby planet apart, leaving scientists unsure how both objects are still orbiting together.

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.