Potentially habitable exoplanets are so incredibly common that astronomers have started to consider more unusual situations ...

Earth is now closer to the sun than at any other time of the year. Here's why our planet's axial tilt, not proximity to the ...

The JWST has examined Chiron, a minor planet that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune, and found unexpectedly different ices ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully unravelled many secrets by pushing the boundaries of astronomy and cosmology closer to the beginning of time.

The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

New data confirms Hubble's finding and refutes current theories of planet formation in the universe’s early days. Thanks to ...

They are only seen from 5 to 18 degrees preceding or trailing the sun ... the furthest any human has ever gone. So, if recent events have you suddenly longing to yeet yourself off the planet ...

moons and dwarf planets such as Pluto. What's this? Oh noooo… Stella: You should know where all the planets are, they orbit the Sun, which is actually a star. This theory was known as the ...

For example, the friend you snap and chat with the most will be represented as Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. Each subsequent planet represents ... as with the closer planets. Neptune, the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came within 6.1 ...

Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana.

NASA's record-setting spacecraft was just 3.8 million miles from the sun's surface—the closest any human-made object has ever ...