Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

Pluto may have been downgraded from full-planet status, but that doesn't mean it doesn't hold a special place in scientist's ...

Therefore, the image of Jupiter circulating on social media was a real photograph taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft, but was ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like ...

Known as Wolf 1069 b, the planet orbits a red dwarf star called Wolf 1069 ... has been running since 2016 using a special instrument on a 3.5m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory 7,113 ...

WASHINGTON >> In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet — sort of a celestial tweener.

This Rocky Planet Around a White Dwarf Resembles Earth -- 8 Billion Years ... Shifted the Axis of Solar System's Biggest Moon Sep. 3, 2024 — Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the ...

The discovery highlights the complexity of star and brown dwarf formation. Scientists remain unsure about the precise transition between giant planets and brown dwarfs, and this new configuration ...

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...

Iceland’s glaciers and frozen lakes stood in for Saturn’s moon Eceladus, helped to recreate the Dwarf planet, Ceres ... in for the icy surface of Mars 3.7 billion years ago, when volcanic ...

There are echoes of "Apocalypse Now" in the third episode of " Lower Decks " season 5, as Lt Bradward Boimler is recruited to ...