Astronomers have identified a rare sednoid called Ammonite, an icy object beyond Neptune that offers new insight into the ...

The flyby offered a window into Pluto’s geology, atmosphere, and potential habitability, uncovering features like Sputnik ...

Our Solar System has eight planets, a few dwarf planets and more than 200 moons. But wait. Are you seeing double? Or did every planet suddenly get a twin? Where would each planet’s double fit in? Why ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

Saturn reigns supreme when it comes to the number of moons orbiting any solar system planet. Including the 128 ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

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