Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

Every single organism on Earth, no matter the biome, the kingdom, the domain, whether it's an extremophile in a hot spring or ...

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using ...

Astronomers anticipate an unprecedented view of the solar system as the Rubin Observatory begins to scan millions of hidden ...

Most of the time, astronomers use high-tech telescopes and expensive equipment to make observations. This time, they just had ...

Our solar system is the only one known to have life inside. While scientists are searching for water in other planets, a new ...

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.

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

Beyond the edge of Neptune, a distant realm of icy debris known as the Kuiper Belt stretches deep into space. This frozen ...

The Webb telescope detects a clear, hydrogen-rich atmosphere, as well as water vapor, on the hot sub-Neptune planet TOI-421 B ...