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 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

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

Eiza González plays the lone survivor of a deep-space bloodbath in 'Ash,' which saves its boldest ideas for your eyeballs, ...

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 ...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night sky, thanks to a rare ...

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