Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

As Bajaj puts it: "These James Webb Space Telescope data sets are so beautiful." ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

The article envisions the solar system forming a cricket team with each planet embodying unique player characteristics. From ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Scientists discovered that methyl halides, a gas produced by microbes, could be a biosignature for life on distant planets.

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Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...