Aging stars can completely destroy their planets. When a star reaches the end of its life on the main sequence, it goes ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

The heart's brightness arises from sunlight reflection, while red patches, formed by tholins, showcase Pluto's atmospheric ...

Clyde Tombaugh, who was born on this day in 1906, grew up on a farm in Kansas and was captivated by sights of the moon and ...

First detected in 2004, the dwarf planetHaumeaquickly stood out due to its rapid rotation and elongated form. But the 2017 discovery of a ring system around it added a new level of complexity to an ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth. Discovered in 1801 and visited by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in 2015, it has changed how scientists think about ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close binary system—an arrangement previously thought impossible. Using advanced ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

A team of researchers at the University of Southern Queensland has discovered a potentially habitable planet 150 light-years ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped distant worlds.