Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets," according to NASA's Goddard Space ...
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 ...
It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...
Through international collaboration, a team of astronomers has confirmed two exoplanets and found hints of a third exoplanet ...
A University of Iowa researcher has been awarded funding from NASA to create an interstellar map that could lead to more accurate observations of planets located outside our solar system — known as ...
A coronal mass ejection on another star has been witnessed in its entirety for the first time, revealing that when these ...
When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...
The comet is the third interstellar object from deep space ever recorded to pass through Earth's solar system.
Is 3I/Atlas an alien spacecraft or just a really interesting rock hurling through the cosmos? That debate has been raging ...