It's just 18 light-years away: a super-Earth named GJ 251c with a minimum mass about 3.84 times that of our own planet. The ...

"The national security establishment has already been doing this for five decades but thought that no one could replicate it, ...

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 ...

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

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Rarest Moons in the Solar System: Did you know? NASA, the ISS, and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are constantly observing the rarest moons in the solar system? The purpose behind this research ...

Welcome to SolarBalls, where animated content combines entertainment with education about the solar system and the universe. This channel offers space animations infused with comedy, exploring various ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of the solar system as we thought. A team of astronomers led by Julio Fernández ...

Oh, we humans do love a cleanly defined boundary, don’t we? They make things easier, after all. If we’re trying to categorize something, knowing what labeled bin to put it in is handy. If we’re ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending a mission to one would undoubtedly yield a scientific payoff. There’s a ...