An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

An international team used 40 years' worth of data from two space probes to track down what they believe are signs of this ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests a planet in a faraway solar system was consumed by a star by hurling ...

The scientists have named the molecular hydrogen cloud “Eos,” after the Greek goddess of mythology who is the personification ...

The crew of an alien spacecraft entering the Solar System, maybe looking for planets bearing alien life, would be struck by ...

Despite being 3,400 times the mass of the sun and just 300 light-years away, the hydrogen cloud had gone unnoticed until now.

The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...

Scientists have named the molecular structure “Eos,” after the Greek goddess of mythology who is the personification of the ...

Once the quirky underdog of our solar system, Pluto held planetary ... established three criteria for what defines a planet: it must orbit the sun, be spherical in shape and have “cleared ...