Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

And Back - The Super Soldiers Defending the Kuiper Belt On April 7, 2016, the team running NASA’s New Horizons mission were ...

In the outer reaches of our solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, lies Sedna, one of the most mysterious objects ever ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

Pluto is the tiniest planet in our solar system with a diameter of roughly 2,377 kilometers, making it even smaller than our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet using the direct-imaging technique. The host star's light was ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Astronomers have detected evidence of an exoplanet that would be the first to be discovered by the JWST. Using NASA’s James ...