On 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse will be visible from Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain, making it the first to pass over mainland Europe since 1999. Our stories cover all you need to know ...
Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern ...
Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets we’ve found so far – which in turn makes them interesting for ...
Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was ...
Hundreds of people who love the little planet that was dissed, gather every year in the Arizona town where Pluto was discovered. They celebrate scientific discovery, history and our solar system’s ...
Pluto will complete its first orbit since 1930 in 2178, a historic 248-year space journey that spans generations of humans.
Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...
In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...
An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, ...
As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth. Out ...