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

Harvard University astronomers have proposed a new theory suggesting that the mysterious 'little red dots' first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) two years ago represent new galaxies ...

Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have ...

Searching for exoplanets within these disks is highly challenging. Astronomers use clues from the shape and morphology of the disks to infer the presence of exoplanets. Fomalhaut's debris disk ...

T he nearby (on a galactic scale) star Fomalhaut has a giant ring that has puzzled astronomers since its discovery in 2005.