What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...

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 recently discovered exoplanet, a planet that exists beyond our solar system, called GJ 251c is a super-Earth located just 18 light-years away from our ...

Hidden by the Sun’s glare, a new space object has been found lurking in our Solar System, and it's one of the fastest-moving ...

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 ...

Astronomers have identified a nearby world that could potentially host life. It is a “super-Earth” orbiting a faint red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away. The newly found exoplanet, named GJ ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...