NASA astrophysics Dr Alex Young has recently spoken about whether the Sun will "ever burn out". In a video uploaded by the space agency, he said: "Well, the Sun, just like the stars we see at night, ...

"Will the Sun ever burn out? Well, the Sun, just like the stars we see at night, is a star," NASA explained. "It’s a giant ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

Will the Universe end in a Big Freeze, a Big Rip – or something even stranger? Take a look into the distant future with ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because ...

A small team led by Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Natural ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS). The ...