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

Eris is similarly sized to Pluto ... the once-planet and now dwarf planet continues to be photographed and studied. The New Horizons mission was the first to fly by Pluto, doing so in 2015 ...

The goddess of the night also spawned Hypnos (Sleep), the Oneiroi (Dreams), Momus (Blame), Oizys (Pain, Distress), the Hesperides, the Moirai (Fates), Nemesis (Indignation, Retribution), Apate (Deceit ...

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

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

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, KK153, has been detected using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Located about 6.5 million light ...

Every now and then, space surprises us– and this time, the buzz is all about four small rocky planets found around one of our closest stellar neighbours. No, they’re not Earth 2.0. But they do ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...