A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

Since it’s Christmas Day launch in 2021, the James Webb Space telescope has provided those of us back on Earth with some of the most incredible, awe-inspiring photographs of space, as well as aiding ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

"This is something we haven’t seen before," Lisa Nortmann, a scientist at the University of Göttingen who led the new ...

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet-stream of its kind ever ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.

From a cosmic blunder to a shining star, Stephanie Buttigieg turned a live TV slip-up into a masterclass on planets and ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came three times closer to the sun than Mercury on January 13—and this may have changed it ...

Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...