In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of researchers led…
Comets, with their long, beautiful, bright tails of ice, are some of the most spectacular sightings in the night sky.…
When Sicilian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi spotted Ceres in 1801, he thought it was a planet. Astronomers didn't know about asteroids…
When a young solar system gets going it's little more than a young star and a rotating disk of debris.…
Planets form from the accumulation of countless grains of dust swirling around young stars. New computer simulations have found that…
Many planetary systems may get snuffed out before they even get a chance to form, according to new research. The…
200 light-years away from Earth, there's a K-type main-sequence star named TOI (TESS Object of Interest) 178. When Adrian Leleu,…
I don't know if you've noticed by now, but the Earth is a little bit wet. How Earth got all…
A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has bolstered the case for our Sun having a long-lost…
The Milky Way has a number of satellite galaxies; nearly 60 of them, depedending on how we define them. One…