The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

The Orion Nebula — where young stars are being actively born — serves as a natural laboratory for uncovering the secrets ...

Learn what planet rains molten iron and which planet has two moons like Tatooine in Star Wars.

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...

The infinity of the universe hides facts such as the one that has been uncovered in recent days. An object 13 times the size of the planet Jupiter is wandering uncontrollably throu ...

The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10,000 years ago, the Veil Nebula is situated about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This view ...

Despite not technically being a planet anymore, Pluto has five moons. The 128 new Saturnian satellites are all considered irregular moons. These are objects that orbit their host planet on an ...

The seven planets in the system closely orbit their star, so that if TRAPPIST-1 were in place of our sun in the solar system, the planets surrounding it would all be within the orbit of Mercury ...

Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could be created when young star systems clash, meaning they represent an entire ...