In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...
Located 446 light-years from Earth, this planet, dubbed 'HD 143811 b', orbits a 'binary system' where two stars swirl around ...
The two outermost planets in the solar system are generally considered ice giants, yet we know little about their interiors.
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson is setting aside $350,000 to support Portal Space Systems' expansion into a satellite ...
Journey beyond the asteroid belt to explore the solar system's majestic giants and mysterious outer reaches. We break down ...
A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...
Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond ...
For decades, Pluto was our solar system's ninth planet. This video explains the scientific journey that led to its ...
Is an interstellar comet actually an alien spaceship? A researcher traces how influencers spread such speculation via social ...
SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...
Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...
Traces of comets and asteroids in distant solar systems: In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris disk". The disk ...