Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

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

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

It looks at how streams of interstellar bodies might escape a solar system and how they would then move through the Milky Way ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system ... the Milky Way. While it is always possible for a random asteroid or comet to have a random flyby near a large planet ...