The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

A recent study has sparked intrigue by suggesting the existence of a mysterious object from beyond our solar system behaving ...

This number is monitored by NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) located at the California Institute of Technology's IPAC. Currently, there are over 8,000 candidate planets awaiting ...

The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions ...

A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...

Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that has stumped scientists. Most of the stars across the Milky Way are small red dwarfs ...

Lava planets, which have one face perpetually turned toward their star and heated to temperatures capable of melting rock, offer a unique natural laboratory for exploring the interactions ...

By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

Our Solar System contains eight planets (sorry, Pluto) orbiting around the Sun. But while all planets are important members of the club, if we’re being honest, we know there’s a crown jewel of our ...