A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising new behavior of Jupiter that directly affects Earth in ways we are only beginning to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The star is only about a fifth the mass of the sun.

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

In a few days, the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are to be presented. Simulations are now raising ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, ...

A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun. Such small stars ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Northern lights may be visible in parts of the U.S. Monday night following weekend solar storms.

2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental process in ...