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

On March 29, 1807, the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers discovered the asteroid Vesta. Vesta is the second-largest body in ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Today’s moons, planets, and dwarf planets formed from a proto-planetery disk surrounding our Sun 4.6 ...

A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant Kuiper Belt, is helping scientists nail down their respective masses, a new study reports. The Kuiper ...

To do it, he developed a model that simulated an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf. He modeled the orbiting Earth-like planet as the habitable zone devolved, noting how much energy it ...

is a low-mass red dwarf, one of the most common types of stars. Over the past decade, astronomers have found that many of these stars have multiple rocky planets orbiting them. Enter MAROON-X ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Pallas family asteroids exhibit unique blue spectroscopic profiles, placing them in the rare B-type category, which comprises about 4% of known asteroids. These ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, the only dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has only about 1.3% of the mass of the Moon. The asteroid Vesta has about 28% of the mass of Ceres ...

Astronomers have traced decades-old X-ray emissions from the Helix Nebula to a white dwarf possibly consuming planetary debris. Reports suggest a Jupiter-like planet may have been torn apart by ...

Scientists using a telescope in Hawaii have discovered a never-before-seen dwarf planet lurking within the ring of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. The small new world -- temporarily named ...