A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

Diamond rain falls on ice giants Uranus and Neptune, where intense pressure and heat transform methane into crystallizing diamonds. Scientists recreat ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

Some pass close enough to be noticed, like comet 3I/ATLAS now crossing our Solar System. Scientists believe these visitors ...

An asteroid named 2025 PN7 has been in quasi-orbit of Earth for approximately 60 years. It's expected to stay there for ...

Though NASA confirms that 3I/ATLAS poses no immediate threat to Earth, its unusual trajectory and behaviour have stirred ...

Study discovered that Chiron, a small icy world between Saturn and Uranus, is forming rings. This shows how small worlds ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on? If you think you've met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven't learned about TOI ...