A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

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

A team of scientists want to start a new mission to try to find life beyond Earth and the solar system. Astronomers from ETH Zurich, a Swiss university, want to send four space telescopes to explore ...

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea, says Abigail Beall ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s Star, our nearest solitary stellar neighbor just six light-years away. Using ultra-sensitive instruments, scientists ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death spiral, destined to explode in a type 1a supernova. This discovery confirms long ...

(Web Desk) - Astronomers have discovered four rocky planets, all significantly smaller than Earth, orbiting Barnard’s Star — ...

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

Every now and then, space surprises us– and this time, the buzz is all about four small rocky planets found around one of our ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...