A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

Oct. 16, 2024 — An international team of astronomers has figured out that a famous brown ... white dwarf, a system ... ESO Telescope Captures the Most Detailed Infrared Map Ever of Our Milky ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...

Thus, our detections of the 3.4 μm feature are the first in atmospheres outside of the solar system. The presence of this hydrocarbon is not predicted by any atmospheric models of young brown dwarfs.

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

Nov. 6, 2024 — Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over ... New research in our Milky Way has revealed ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.