A newly identified group of icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt has left astronomers both surprised and intrigued.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing ...

Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts ...

Astronomers discovered a comet originating from outside the solar system this summer. Its name is 3I/ATLAS ("three-eye-Atlas"), which means it's the third interstellar object found in the solar system ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

A surprising new theory claims Earth’s building blocks were supernova ice, not stardust. This could change everything.

NASA’s Hubble captured images of IRAS 23077+6707, the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing its structure, asymmetry, and potential for forming multiple gas giant planets.

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...