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

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

Frisco Elementary School hosted a family stargazing event with the help of community partners Thursday, Jan. 16. Students ...

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

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

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A strange world just 47 light-years from Earth is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about alien planets. Hidden beneath thick, light-blocking haze, it holds a mix of gases that defies every ...

The two demo satellites that Google and Planet are developing for Project Suncatcher are versions of Planet’s new Owl line of imaging satellites. Credit: Planet WASHINGTON — Planet, a company best ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system planets' interior. The composition of Uranus and Neptune, the two ...

It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with all its planets, orbits the center of the Milky Way, flying through the cosmos at around 450,000 miles per ...

For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as the ...