These distant worlds are called exoplanets: planets that exist outside our solar system. Most of the exoplanets scientists have discovered so far orbit stars within the Milky Way, but some lie even ...

The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

Discover Our Solar System Through Detailed 3D Models Forget dusty textbooks and flat diagrams. We’re talking about ...

Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

TRAPPIST-1 is one of the most promising places to study Earth-like planets outside our solar system. Among its seven rocky ...

The astronomical phenomenon of Pluto's opposition reoccurred on the 25th, providing astronomy enthusiasts with the best opportunity to observe this distant celestial body throughout the year. During ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

About 40 light-years away, orbiting a dim, cool red star called Trappist-1 are seven planets. One of them, scientists have ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...