A strange white dwarf system is pulling a nearby planet apart, leaving scientists unsure how both objects are still orbiting together.

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

This is your rundown on the latest breaking news in space. We’ve got updates on everything from auroras to black holes, plus ...

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Recently, astronomers detected the presence of a relatively new quasi-moon called 2025 PN7, which appears to orbit our planet. The discovery of the object, also called Buwan, was published in Research ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...