The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

Pluto is back! His adventures searching for the mysterious dwarf planets continue! Welcome to SolarBalls! Space animation ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets ...

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars. The brown dwarfs ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on March 4, 2025, the composite photo shows a potentially destructive white dwarf ...