But in reality, it may be the beginning of a new phase of life for all the objects living in the solar system. When stars like the Sun die, they go through a phase of rapid expansion called the Red ...

Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

Two very different asteroid families may share the same ancient roots, linked by a rare mineral fingerprint and revealed ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

How do you tell how old an astronomical object is? I mean, the next time the moon is in the sky, take a look at it. How would ...

The newfound satellite, only about six miles wide, becomes Uranus’ 29th known moon and orbits near the planet’s inner rings.

Could you be the Lord of the rings (of Saturn)? Try your hand at our Saturn-themed space quiz! Prepare to journey to the ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the sky. But how many do we actually know about? And how many ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual ...

The discovery expands Uranus’s known family of satellites to 29, with the tiny moon measuring just 6 miles across.

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the ...

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