Astronomers in China have observed a pulsar that becomes partially eclipsed by an orbiting companion star every few hours. This type of observation is very rare and could shed new light on how binary ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Darian Sahanaja, a crucial part of Brian Wilson's band since 1999, shares his thoughts about the late Beach Boy's brilliant ...

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of one of the coldest and oldest known ...

The Solar Orbiter, a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, captured detailed images of the sun’s southern region in March, something no other probe has done at close range.

NASA's PUNCH mission has unveiled its first images of colossal solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — delivering an unprecedented, wide-field view of how these solar storms travel ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

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“This hypothetical Neptune-sized planet would circle our Sun on a highly elongated ... giving a better glimpse into what lies at the edge of our solar system. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...