An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

By comparing those fingerprints to 20 different molecules that they would potentially expect to observe in the atmosphere, ...

An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a ...

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling ... one of the authors of the study from MIT. Inspecting the planet further, they found that it is disintegrating at a dramatic ...

While observing a section of space using Nasa’s exoplanet surveying satellite, scientists found a peculiar periodic dip in starlight that tipped them off about the presence of a rocky planet ...