Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...

If humanity ever leaves the solar system, it will not be for curiosity alone. It will be because survival demands it. Proxima ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

Key takeawaysPlanets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar ...

Space experts believe that the 'Dracula' disc could offer new insights into planetary formation, especially in massive ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.