The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Sep. 16, 2020 — When stars like our sun die, all that remains is an exposed core -- a white dwarf. A planet orbiting a white dwarf presents a promising opportunity to determine if life can ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen ...

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

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Mayor Eric Adams, who was recently pardoned on bribery charges, was booed at the opening of Planet Hollywood ... behest of the Trump administrations. A Page Six spy told us that the boos were ...

We float through space revolving around the Sun along with seven other planets and five dwarf planets—including Pluto, which was demoted from its planetary status in 2006. Sometimes, we look up ...

There are eight planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. You may recall that Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the ...

A new study shows a water-rich mineral could explain the planet's color -- and hint at its wetter, more habitable past. Mars has captivated scientists and the public alike for centuries.

It has a ring and a small moon called Weywot. Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, a region of our solar system past Neptune. NASA captured stunning image of Eris dwarf planet. It is a dwarf ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Each planet in our solar system takes a different amount of time to complete one orbit around the sun. For example, Mercury, being closest to the sun, takes just 88 Earth days to ...