In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...

In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MRNAS), astronomers from the University of Warwick, Europe, and the United States found strong evidence that ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Saturn is reclaiming its throne in the night sky and on September 21 will make its closest approach to Earth for the year.

Following its successful collection of material from the asteroid 162173 Ryugu in 2019, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft swung by Earth to drop off its precious ...