Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...

For decades, Pluto was celebrated as the ninth planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomical ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...