Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of interstellar space.

A team of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists recently traveled to Antarctica in the hopes of proving—once and for all—that our ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...

Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

Exomoons are a hot topic in the science community, as none have been confirmed with astronomers finding new and creative ways ...

The solar system, long believed to be a relatively stable and isolated system of planets, moons, and distant bodies, may have experienced a dramatic shift caused by an unexpected interstellar visitor.

The planet is experiencing significant atmospheric loss — about 2,00,000 tons per second — primarily composed of light gases ...

Hurt (Caltech-IPAC) illustration Scientists say they've found the nearest temperate Earth-size world to date: Gliese 12 b, a so-called exo-Venus, meaning a rocky planet outside the solar system ...

In 2025, we might detect the first signs of life outside our solar system. Crucial to this potential breakthrough ... like ancient galaxies and black holes. Every time a planet passes between us and ...

The results, reported in the journal Nature Astronomy, have implications for understanding Earth's uniqueness, and for the search for life on planets outside our Solar System. While many exoplanets ...

At this point, astronomers have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, and many look very different from the ones in our solar system, which raises the question of what circumstances ...