New simulations suggest binary star systems may be ideal for planet formation, and may produce more gas giants than ...

Scientists say about 10,000 new exoplanet candidates may be hiding in NASA data, after using artificial intelligence to scan ...

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman is necroposting about an age-old debate in astronomy that was considered officially settled ...

The celestial body’s status as the solar system's ninth planet was withdrawn in 2006. Now some experts say we might want to ...

Using the early orbital data of asteroids, an astronomer may have found the ultimate spacecraft shortcut through the solar ...

Could Pluto be repromoted to planetary status? On Tuesday NASA administrator Jared Isaacman told a Senate committee hearing ...

A distant Jupiter-like planet has revealed an unexpected secret: water-ice clouds hiding in its atmosphere. The discovery, made with JWST, shows these alien worlds are more complex than scientists ...

Should Pluto be a bona fide planet again? NASA is working to "revisit the discussion" on Pluto's planethood status, according ...

So far, humanity has yet to find its first "exomoon"—a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn't been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of ...

Pluto is a tiny icy world way out at the edge of our solar system. In 1930, an American astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh ...

The head of NASA says maybe Pluto is a planet after all. He is wrong because Pluto is part of the rest of the solar system ...

Humanity has built some incredibly destructive weapons. There are still roughly 12,000 nuclear warheads on Earth today, ...