A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

TCU star Hailey Van Lith has been selected No. 11 by the Chicago Sky and here is what they're getting. A powerful ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to ...

Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...

Astronomers have long suspected that an enormous, unseen planet is hiding somewhere far beyond Neptune, quietly shaping the ...

As experts turn their gaze to the sky, the likelihood of new discoveries increases exponentially. In a new paper published in the journal Earth, a group of scientists may have come ...

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access the inner planets. Now the results are in, and we can do interesting ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system. The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...

This distant orbathing red dwarf star, at about 47 light-years distance from Earth, presents unique planetary attributes different from all known solar system planets. Scientific classification names ...

In fact, they’re some of the smallest ones ever found outside our Solar System. What makes it even more interesting? These planets are circling Barnard’s Star, which is just six light-years ...