The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - but that's not what makes it unusual. Scientists have recently discovered ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to ...

If you've ever wondered why we are here, then you can thank Jupiter for part of the answer. A new study from Rice University ...

NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have revealed surprising truths about the farthest reaches of our solar system. Nearly 15 ...

A newly detected super-Earth just 20 light-years away is giving scientists one of the most promising chances yet to search ...

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

This article lists the top 7 largest moons in our Solar System, detailing their size, the planet they orbit, and key ...

Astronomers studying a disk of material circling a still-forming star inside our Galaxy have found a tantalizing result — the inner part of the disk is orbiting the protostar in the opposite direction ...

The Sun has a new neighbor that was hiding in plain twilight. An asteroid that orbits the Sun in just 113 days–the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and second shortest for any object in ...

This discovery was made by two of NASA’s most celebrated telescopes. This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018, two ...

2185_HamiltonSpectrographVogt © 2003 Laurie Hatch, image and text – Lick Observatory – Mt. Hamilton 2003 December 11 – The Shane 120" Reflector was the second ...