The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

Located around 111 light years away from our solar system, and thus being quite close in space terms, is the star TWA 7. Also ...

Could a vagabond giant from the outermost regions of interstellar space be poised on the cusp of sweeping by our cosmic doorstep? Astronomers say yes and they have the data to support it. Using the ...

If we’ll ever find life outside our solar system, it will not be an instant discovery. Save for the slim possibility of an ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an ...

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

In a major international project, researchers have conducted the first search for an atmosphere and surface habitability of ...

The asteroid Ryugu is an echo from the deep, distant past. Two tiny grains of the rock, delivered to Earth in 2020 by the ...

Have you ever thought about a career in space science? Dr Helena Bates shares what it’s like to be a researcher of meteorites ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? The sun will someday ...