At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

The imminent explosion of T Coronae Borealis is expected to create a temporary 'new star' in the night sky this week ...

A total of four small, rocky exoplanets were found circling Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf with a mass about one-sixth […] ...

A study suggests planets in white dwarf habitable zones could sustain life for billions of years through key biological ...

A rare nova explosion from T Coronae Borealis may be visible next week! Learn when and how to see this once-in-80-years celestial event in the night sky.

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

The solar system was packed with 50 to 100 protoplanets billions of years ago. Not all of them lived to tell the tale of the ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

Scientists found a bizarre new planet named Enaiposha, unlike any in our solar system. Learn why it's a mystery and how it’s ...

This is particularly puzzling, as a vast majority of meteorites can be traced to some well-known parent body—whether that be ...