In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

"It shows that Makemake is not an inactive remnant of the outer solar system, but a dynamic body where methane ice is still ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to ...

This captivating video explores Sedna, one of the most distant and mysterious dwarf planets in our solar system. Discovered in 2003, Sedna orbits the Sun once every 11,400 years, traveling through icy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf — the same chemical that ...

Astronomers have discovered new evidence that suggests the possibility of an unknown planet in our solar system's farthest ...

Using Pluto as an example, this celestial body, once considered the ninth planet, was redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006. Its average distance from the Sun is about 5.9 billion kilometers, a distance ...

Astronomers have discovered fresh evidence suggesting the possible existence of an unseen planet in the far reaches of our ...