Is Jupiter a failed star, or is it simply a giant planet in our solar system? While Jupiter shares a similar chemical ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has unveiled an exciting breakthrough: the discovery of an entirely new type of plasma wave near ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

Astronomers have discovered yet another alien visitor to the Solar System.

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

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Astronomers have discovered yet another alien visitor to the Solar System. This one appears to be a comet, a ball of dust, ...

Stars are known for being some of the largest objects in the cosmos, with some clocking in at upwards of 1,700 times the size ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...