The universe is filled with wonders, but not all of them are beautiful. Some planets discovered beyond our Solar System are so extreme, so hostile, that they seem ripped straight from a sci-fi horror ...

The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades.

What is the Solar System truly like? In this video, we take a closer look at real images captured by NASA and other space agencies, showcasing our planets and the vast beauty of the Milky Way without ...

The discovery resets our understanding of how ice behaves in the frigid vastness of deep space and could influence our ...

When two giant planets collide, an even bigger world may be born. Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The human species is ever-changing and so is our view of the universe. By Jeffrey Kluger It’s easy to laugh at the ancient humans who thought of the nighttime sky as a sort of cosmic colander ...

Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the ...

No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like the enormous new Vera Rubin Observatory. Here's what it could reveal ...

The team divided the observational subjects into two age groups: young planets (10 million – 100 million years old) and intermediate-age planets (100 million years to 1 billion years old).

Dr. Universe: Besides telescopes and spaceships, ... The sun and eight major planets make up our solar system. All the planets outside our solar system are called extrasolar planets or exoplanets.