The heart's brightness arises from sunlight reflection, while red patches, formed by tholins, showcase Pluto's atmospheric ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just slightly smaller than Pluto, and it orbits the sun about three times farther ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also caught a glimpse of one of the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbors.

Sci-fi geeks with a bit of a funny bone would do well to consider revisiting some of the best science fiction-based sitcoms of the past. Here's our list.

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.