Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic event. Now, the Webb telescope has ...

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The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

The carbon monoxide, in particular, was interesting: it bore a powerful resemblance to the carbon monoxide seen in the planet ...

That meant the star stayed about the same size — and the planet, roughly the size of Jupiter, came to it. Over millions of ...

A team of scientists want to start a new mission to try to find life beyond Earth and the solar system. Astronomers from ETH Zurich, a Swiss university, want to send four space telescopes to explore ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star.