It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with a sulfur-rich atmosphere, a ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Therefore, the image of Jupiter circulating on social media was a real photograph taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft, but was ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, scientists have started developing a library of basalt-based spectral signatures that not only will help reveal the composition of ...

In the new BBC series Solar System, physicist Dr Brian Cox explores acid rain, ice mountains and nitrogen glaciers on Earth's ...