Study discovered that Chiron, a small icy world between Saturn and Uranus, is forming rings. This shows how small worlds ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune — a frozen world so far from the Sun that it challenges everything we know about how the solar system formed. Man Watched ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Three billion years ago, a sun -like star reached the end of its life, throwing off its outer layers following its red giant ...

"We therefore caution against the use of phosphine as a biosignature until these discrepancies are resolved." The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

Yeimy J. Rivera receives funding from NASA's Parker Solar Probe project through the SAO/SWEAP subcontract 975569. Tatiana Niembro receives funding from NASA's Parker Solar Probe project through the ...