As telescopes have become more powerful, it’s turned out our solar system is not the only game in town: There are millions of ...

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On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

Nearly 40 years after its launch, the probe continues to gather information and challenge everything we know about space.

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - ...

A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — ...

A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.