New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

The rapid spin of this white dwarf, that is vampirically taking stellar matter away from a companion star, could be explained by its shrinking radius. While the white dwarf won't erupt in a supernova ...

Astronomers have discovered 85 possible exoplanets outside the Solar System which could potentially sustain life after ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

The solar system was literally turning itself inside ... None of this is what you would expect from planets that were born in a spinning disk around a star and stayed quietly in their birthplace.

total solar eclipses near the Eastern Mediterranean. Yes, Earth is suddenly spinning faster. Earth rotated once around its axis on Wednesday, June 29, in 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours ...

In a recent study, an Italian astronomer has investigated the nature of a binary system known as HD 49798 ... dwarf with a mass of 1.22 solar masses and a spin period of approximately 13.2 seconds ...

They often spin quite rapidly and disperse escaping ... galaxies and even hidden solar system objects. In their recent study, astronomers pieced together that some of these nightly images ...