Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the “habitable zone,” where a planet should be neither too hot nor ...

Skygazers in the Empire State will soon have the chance to see Saturn and our moon share a section of the night sky. The ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

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 ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

Scientists believe our solar system may be hiding a secret world — and it’s not the famous Planet X :eyes: A new study ...

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 ...

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

In the bigger picture, “down” could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.