The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact configuration and later underwent a violent reshuffling that scattered them to ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

This gas cloud located 500 light years away from our solar system is about to become a planet.This process usually takes a ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it ...

Journey to the farthest reaches of our solar system and uncover the mysteries of Sedna, a reddish dwarf planet that orbits the Sun once every 11,400 years. Explore its strange orbit, icy surface, and ...

Our sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its diameter expands more than a hundredfold, engulfing any unlucky planets in ...

This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere rich with carbon and helium, which is unexpected on this hot planet ...

TOI-561 b is about 1.4 times the size of Earth and completes one orbit around its star in less than 11 hours, placing it in the rare category of ultra-short period exoplanets.

The exoplanet, dubbed PSR J2322-2650 b, has a helium-and-carbon atmosphere, something researchers say they've never seen ...