In November 2023 and more than 15 billion miles from Earth, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, started sending gibberish back to mission control. The signals received from Voyager are only one ...

Astronomers have uncovered a planetary system that challenges conventional theories of planet formation. The system likely includes a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...

An inside-out planetary system around the star LHS 1903 is turning everything that astronomers know about planet formation upside down.

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form.

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

It’s 11 o’clock on a clear, moonless night when, although ready to call it a night, I pause at a glass door that looks out to the southwestern sky: I am moved by an urge for contact with the stars.

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

In our Solar System, the inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky, and the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gaseous.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday3This dark, moonless Friday the 13th evening is the perfect time ...