Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth. Discovered in 1801 and visited by ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

Pluto's days, though they drag on a bit at around 153 hours, are nothing compared to its years. Pluto's orbit takes 248 Earth ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed ...

Webb observations of the Sextans A galaxy reveal how stars in a metal-poor areas create cosmic dust, offering clues about the ...

Discover the epic 9-year journey of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it races through the solar system to uncover Pluto’s ...