But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between ...

The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a “rogue planet” drifting through ...

The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

Astronomers studying the remnant SNR 0509-67.5 have finally caught a white dwarf in the act of a rare “double-detonation” ...

The planet, which astronomers believe is orbiting a young red dwarf star approximately 34 light years away, has been dubbed ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...