How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler's Supernova Remnant using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over ...

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Far beyond Neptune, something heavy appears to be tugging on the outer solar system, bending the paths of distant icy worlds ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, pinned down both the mass and distance of a planet that drifts through the galaxy ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

A dead star is tearing into the leftovers of its own planetary system. The feast shows up as 13 rock-forming elements in the star’s light, and the ruined body was at least 120 miles wide. The star ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the ...