From planet to dwarf planet and beyond 🌌 Neil deGrasse Tyson tells the story of Pluto, explaining the science, the debate, ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

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

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

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

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

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

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...

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

Universe Today reports on a new telescope proposal that could help astronomers detect Earth-sized exomoons, explaining current limits, future technology, and why moons around distant planets matter ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.