A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate ...

A ninth planet may exist beyond Neptune in the Kuiper Belt, a region populated by icy bodies that orbit the Sun.

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

Therefore, the image of Jupiter circulating on social media was a real photograph taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft, but was ...

Astronomers from the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) in Australia and elsewhere have reinvestigated a planetary ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

The solar system has nine planets, but in 2006 the International Astronomical Union declared Pluto a dwarf planet, making the ...

Are there hidden planets in our solar system? New technologies, like the powerful Rubin Observatory, brings us closer to ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." ...