An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

The largest, Titan, is bigger than the planet Mercury ... Related: The 10 weirdest moons in the solar system Daisy joined Space.com in February 2022, before that she worked as a staff writer ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...