February 18 marks the discovery of Pluto by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh. The discovery reshaped the understanding of the ...

The blissfully dark nights surrounding this month's new moon phase on Feb. 17 present a perfect opportunity to explore the wonders of the post-sunset realm while free of the glare cast by our natural ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby globular cluster designated NGC 6397. The finding was ...

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

Our solar system may be the odd one out. Across the Milky Way, astronomers keep finding super-Earths, planets larger than our ...

While typical eclipses last a few days or weeks, this one lasted nearly 200 days.

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

A mysterious object has caused a long-lasting and extreme dimming of a distant star, but is this object a 'failed star' brown dwarf, or an exceptionally massive super-Jupiter exoplanet?

We classified Pluto before really understanding it—just like we reduce people to job titles or put names on relationships ...

"This strange disorder makes it a unique inside-out system," study lead author Thomas Wilson, physics professor from the University of Warwick, said in a statement. "Rocky planets don't usually form ...

Now researchers think they've solved the mystery of one of the longest star-dimming events ever recorded. The star, called ASASSN-24fw, may have disappeared behind a giant planet with an enormous ...