On a small dwarf planet called Makemake, astronomers have seen signs of surprising temperature changes. These could indicate ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

The nearby star Gliese 229 harbours a ‘brown dwarf’ companion: an object less massive than a star but more massive than a planet ... system. Yet, among the hundreds of billions of solar ...

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...

Discovered in 1801 by astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, Ceres was long classified as an asteroid before being reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Ceres is an object of study for researchers as it may ...

The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...

the remaining gas planets inhabit deeper space. The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids, moons and dwarf planets such as Pluto. What's this? Oh noooo ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, holds some of the solar system’s most intriguing mysteries. Among its 28 known moons ...

Within GRAVITY’s combined observations, Xuan’s team discovered that Gliese 229 B was not a single object, but a pair of brown ...

Winds of Change: James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Elusive Details in Young Star Systems Oct. 7, 2024 — Planet ... dwarf, a system ... ESO Telescope Captures the Most Detailed Infrared Map ...

These atmospheres are similar to Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System. They’re nothing like Earth and its life-friendly atmosphere. “GJ 9827 d is the first planet where we detect an ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...