Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...

As Bajaj puts it: "These James Webb Space Telescope data sets are so beautiful." ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...