A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to study its corona and solar ...

"L 98-59 c could be the first planet smaller than 2 Earth radii with a definitively detected atmosphere," a team of ...

Zipping around Saturn and its moons since 2004 ... Saturn is practically a solar system unto itself. Pluto may not count as a planet anymore, but it has its own mission: NASA's New Horizons ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...