On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

Discover the epic 9-year journey of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it races through the solar system to uncover Pluto’s ...

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

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

As a young star develops, so too does a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas around it, ready to birth new planets.

Astronomers may have uncovered a massive hidden planet far beyond Neptune, using decades-old infrared data. The object’s ...

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

Sometimes there are storms where the wind gets really strong, it might rain, or there might be thunder and lightning. Did you ...

On Dec. 19, 3I/ATLAS will be about 1.8 astronomical units away (170 million miles), almost twice as far as the average distance between Earth and the Sun (1AU orr about 93 million miles), according to ...

Learn more about IRAS 23077+6707, a protoplanetary disk, nicknamed Dracuala's Chivito, that may serve as a planet nursery and ...

Pluto's icy mountains have caught the fancy of star gazers and cosmos geeks. But a question soon arose: "Is this made by AI?" ...

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.