Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies offering crucial insights into the solar system’s formation.

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

Stars are born in stellar nurseries, molecular clouds of cold gas and dust. These clouds contain many times the mass of a ...

Explore the world of exoplanets—distant planets that captivate scientists. Visit ExtremeTech to learn what makes them so ...

The Sun is a yellow dwarf star. It is approximately 4.5 billion years old and is in its "main sequence" phase ... It extends ...

If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...

The Webb team set out to study early planetary disks by homing in on the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy near the ...

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

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

Mercury is the least explored of the four rocky planets in the inner Solar System. It wasn’t until 2011 that NASA’s MESSENGER ...

New observations show that newly formed planets close to a star help shepherd dust and gas to create more planets farther out ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...