On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest ...

Over the past decade, researchers have been puzzling through Pluto’s mysteries. Meanwhile, the New Horizons probe heads for interstellar space.

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf ... 5% given its wide and eccentric orbit," said the preprint. There has been a theory among scientists that there is a "huge and mysterious planet lurking in ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” supernova, where an initial helium blast on the star’s surface triggers a ...

We’ve all heard of the world’s most massive sharks, both past and present. The megalodon, the great white shark, and the ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...