There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...

Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 light-years away, is still consuming the rocky remains of its former ...

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still ...

Astronomers have discovered phosphine gas in the atmosphere of an ancient brown dwarf, Wolf 1130C, using the James Webb Space ...

Exoplanet scientists are eagerly awaiting the discovery of an atmosphere around a terrestrial exoplanet. Not a thin, tenuous, ...

Planetary scientist Adeene Denton runs computer simulations to investigate Pluto, the moons of Saturn and other icy bodies in the solar system.

Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the universe. Some people—myself ...

Astronomy has changed significantly since then, and even Pluto has seen its status as a planet demoted to a mere dwarf planet. But what exactly is that? And what does it take for a planet to be put in ...

Astronomers have recently discovered compelling evidence suggesting that ageing stars, similar to our Sun, consume nearby ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

Explore 7 mysterious and interesting facts about the Moon, including its origin, water presence, orbit, size, and potential ...

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to check if another Earth-sized planet orbits Proxima Centauri, our nearest star.