The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Discovering small Saturnian moons could help in understanding more about Saturn and in future resource-mining. The ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

The human face is strikingly distinct from our fossil cousins and ancestors—most notably, it is significantly smaller, and ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Despite their adorable appearance, this breed is notorious for mauling and may be more difficult to train than you might ...