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 ...

Astronomers may have found a candidate for Planet Nine. This planet is beyond Neptune. The finding could be the first ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

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

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

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

In 2020, researchers discovered the first exoplanet near a white dwarf. This planet has turned out to be the coldest known to date.

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

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, ...

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