The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.

Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars’ intense heat. Both are ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

These findings help scientists better understand the processes that sculpt complex planetary nebulas, which, despite their ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I'm sorry I can't travel both — actually, wait, I can travel both. I'm "standing" inside a cavernous galactic space in virtual reality, and with a few ...

Six planets will be visible together in a rare 'planet parade' starting Jan. 21 Athena Sobhan is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR ...