A groundbreaking discovery confirmed by NASA surrounding a young star offers new insights into planet formation and the role ...

Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

Scientists had previously believed that no celestial bodies existed in the vast, empty section of space beyond Neptune.

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

Astronomers may be close to identifying a mysterious object in our solar system. New research points to a potential candidate ...

In a thrilling development that challenges long-held assumptions about the outer reaches of our solar system, astronomers ...

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

Small companion galaxies around our neighboring Andromeda galaxy appear to stretch and point toward Earth in a fascinating ...

A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines ...