The destroyed planet has spewed material onto the white dwarf's surface, with astronomers detecting 13 different elements ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

Makemake, discovered in 2005, orbits the Kuiper Belt nearly 6.8 billion kilometers from the Sun and is one of the brightest ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Our solar system now, once again, officially consists of only eight planets. Although largely debunked, speculation continued ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

A newly discovered dwarf planet could hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our solar system’s outer reaches — but what ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...