Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

A superior conjunction occurs when Venus is the farthest from Earth, on the other side of the sun. Conversely, astronomers ...

Starting closest to the sun, our home star's nearest neighbors ... The number of planetary moons may also increase if we find more planets in the solar system. One such world is the elusive ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

GJ 1214 b, nicknamed Enaiposha, is a planet discovered 47 light-years away that has been reclassified from a mini-Neptune to ...

a regime that remains largely unexplored beyond the solar system. This marks a significant step forward in the search for ...

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...