These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the 2026 meeting of the American Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team ...

China has filed applications to reserve orbital slots for nearly 200,000 satellites, prompting international concern about ...

From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning mysteries.

Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, also called the Hunting Dogs, lies the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449. It's part of the M94 galaxy group, near a group of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs. In ...

The latest wide-scale analysis of data from the Euclid Space Telescope has demonstrated just how big of an impact this European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft is set to have on science. Importantly, it ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes ...