Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy.

If Brown’s hidden world is real, Rubin will almost certainly find it or strong indirect evidence that it exists. “In the ...

We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system. So far, we have only discovered two interstellar ...

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of interstellar space.

An exoplanet in the Trappist star system — a multi-planet star system similar to the solar system and just 39 light-years ...

Occasional encounters between such rogue planets and established systems could have shaped planetary architectures not just ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give ... One of them has yielded the first compelling evidence of a binary star system — called D9 — orbiting the galactic ...

Turn your attention to the nearby sky: to the 8 planets, 288 moons ... the many objects that make up our solar system. That's old news. In the same way that looking at baby stellar systems ...