A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia. He has written four books on astronomy and consulted on space ...

What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

If you’re looking for a magical reason to set your alarm for the wee hours of the morning, the Eta Aquarids meteor shower is it.

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

Saturn has 128 more moons than astronomers previously thought - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 ...

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the Solar System in existence, and it spans the entire Swedish ...