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 ...

Dinosaurs, Martians, and the fate of the human race? This could be more than your standard day at the office for the Enterprise crew.

Since the first planet beyond our solar system was confirmed in the 1990s, astronomers have gone on to catalogue more than ...

Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon ...

Scientists have discovered a unique planetary system located 71 light-years away, featuring a red dwarf star orbited by a ...

August 2026 will give the inhabitants of the Earth the opportunity to see a rare large parade of planets — a phenomenon that ...

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.