Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again.

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

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Pluribus Episode 8 reveals the hive mind’s master plan, and it may have started long before the signal from Kepler-22b.

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space ...

Alpha centauri is the closest star system to our solar system. It contains multiple stars and at least one planet in a ...

Astronomers directly imaged two separate collisions between rocky objects in the Fomalhaut star system. Scientists previously ...

The Terra Hunting Experiment will track the wobbles of dozens of stars nightly for years in the most focused hunt yet for an ...

Make room, earthling. We’re moving the other planets in our Solar System into our planetary neck of the woods. Would all the ...