From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

Exoplanets in binary star systems usually orbit both stars, but astronomers have now spotted three planets orbiting one or ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory could be key to discovering a ninth planet in our Solar System that has so far remained in ...

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they're streaming through the universe, doing their own thing," said researcher Sarah Geller.

They found that if a primordial black hole came within a few hundred million miles of Mars, it could cause a slight “wobble” ...

Still, that comes to 28.7 billion planets in the Goldilocks zones of M-dwarfs alone. This is not even considering other types of stars like our own yellow sun. Rocky planets orbiting in an M-dwarf's ...

Planet’s wild orbit offers clues to how such large, hot planets take shape. A team of astronomers has discovered a juvenile ...

New simulations suggest that there are enough primordial black holes—potential dark matter candidates—in the universe for one ...

"Our observations indicate the presence of powerful iron winds, probably fuelled by a hot spot in the atmosphere." ...

In an eccentric twist, the hot Jupiter spotted in 2005 was found to be in an orbit just over six days long. The recently ...

The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1,000 kilometers and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television ...