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

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

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

Most big game may have disappeared from West Africa, but there are still plenty of exciting – and little known – creatures ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.

Scientists have identified phenomena in deep space that can act as naturally occurring “space weather stations” far beyond our solar system.

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

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

What you won’t see, though, are green ones. The reason for this is both a fault in the stars and in ourselves: we don’t see ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

The short answer is stars will come first. Stars are the components of galaxies. because they're so massive. of materials ...