“This milestone represents decades of cosmic exploration driven by NASA space telescopes — exploration that has completely changed the way humanity views the night sky,” Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

In its youth, the dwarf planet Ceres may have brewed a chemical banquet beneath its icy crust.

A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing ...

Deep in space, an ancient brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" has revealed the first-ever detection of a molecule that ...

Makemake supposedly exhibits a diameter of 890 miles, making it two-thirds the size of Pluto, according to Earth.com. Past reports claimed that the astronomical body did not exhibit a substantial ...

For years, astronomers believed that Makemake, one of the brightest icy bodies beyond Neptune, was a frozen relic of the ...