Far beyond the bright planets, in the dim outskirts of the Solar System, astronomers keep stumbling on objects that refuse to ...

An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets within the system can also be seen. - International Gemini ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have discovered three previously unknown moons around Uranus and Neptune, the most distant planets in our solar system. (CNN) — Astronomers have discovered three previously unknown ...

Astronomers studying a disk of material circling a still-forming star inside our Galaxy have found a tantalizing result — the inner part of the disk is orbiting the protostar in the opposite direction ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

This image, captured by the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, shows the star TYC 8998-760-1 accompanied by two giant exoplanets (arrowed), TYC 8998-760-1b ...

Imagine boiling something. You probably picture a stove, heat radiating from a burner, and bubbles rising because the ...

The Sun has a new neighbor that was hiding in plain twilight. An asteroid that orbits the Sun in just 113 days–the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and second shortest for any object in ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

This discovery was made by two of NASA’s most celebrated telescopes. This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, two ...

2185_HamiltonSpectrographVogt © 2003 Laurie Hatch, image and text – Lick Observatory – Mt. Hamilton 2003 December 11 – The Shane 120" Reflector was the second ...