For ages, astronomers have categorized the skies into tidy buckets: stars, planets, and moons. However, a new object 71 light years from us could completely disrupt that thinking.
Most asteroids drifting through our solar system are made of rock or ice, but one stands out as strikingly different. Known as Psyche, or 16 Psyche, this metal-rich asteroid orbits the Sun between ...
A new study found a four-carbon sugar named “erythrulose” in a molecular cloud in the interstellar medium (ISM) roughly ...
Since the first planet beyond our solar system was confirmed in the 1990s, astronomers have gone on to catalogue more than ...
A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of ...
A newly discovered object in a distant solar system doesn’t fit neatly into the current definitions of moon or planet.
Our solar system is home to a whopping 891 moons, but the rest of the known cosmos? Nothing. Until now. As a new paper in ...
The object about 72 light-years away from Earth could be the first satellite discovered outside our solar system.
Silver makes up only a minute fraction of the Sun, but its abundance carries clues about events that shaped the Milky Way.
Astronomers discovered a moon-like object orbiting a brown dwarf that's orbiting a star. Say that three times fast.
In a novel three-tiered hierarchical system, the star CD-35 2722 is orbited by a brown dwarf that, in turn, is orbited by a ...
Scientists are documenting a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy that is so starkly dissimilar to our own solar system ...
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