And every year, we discover more and more objects (usually small asteroids or comets) joining the solar system. In 1846, astronomers had already identified the eight main planets. But that hasn't ...

Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

Astronomers think that a dwarf planet hiding in the middle of our solar system could be a source of frozen water. The dwarf ...

The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1. Makemake is one of many icy worlds that orbit the Sun past Neptune.

TRAPPIST-1 b, the innermost planet, was recently observed in depth by JWST in the mid-infrared, a type of light to which our ...

Astronomers in Armagh have discovered a sign that a star feasted on nearby planets ... solar system. The system no longer creates energy at its core, so the star is dead. The white dwarf star ...

In stark contrast with a paper released last year that determined the exoplanet was likely to be bare and barren, new data ...

In billions of years, our Sun will expand into a red giant, likely engulfing Earth before shrinking into a white dwarf—a dense, glowing stellar remnant. While this process destroys most planets ...