Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known ...

On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest ...

NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's ...

For many of us, the idea of a solar system with just eight planets is a fundamental concept in science. However, since Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, Neptune has stood as the last ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

Methuselah, located 12,400 light years away in the constellation Scorpio, is one of the most ancient exoplanets ever ...

Science News: Astronomers have found a new super-Earth named TOI-1846 b. This planet is about twice the size of Earth. It orbits a red dwarf star 154 light-years aw ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

Pluto was long considered our ninth planet, but the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...