There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...

When it comes to what part of Earth is most at risk of an ISO impactor, low latitudes near the equator face the greatest risk ...

What's the best way to reveal what an exoplanet is made of? Wait for it to get gravitationally shredded and engulfed by its ...

We know of three interstellar objects (ISO) that have visited our inner solar system. Oumuamua was the first one, and it came ...

Astronomers have recently discovered compelling evidence suggesting that ageing stars, similar to our Sun, consume nearby planets during their late evolutionary stages. This dramatic process, which ...

This marks the first time astronomers have observed the formation of a ring system. Saturn isn't the only planet in our solar system with a ring system. While Saturn's rings are the most dramatic, the ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

The Earth will be swallowed by the Sun, or torn to pieces - a bleak prospect recently proposed by scientists, but in the very ...

The best news for stargazers in November is that Butler nights are much longer, and you can start your stargazing well before ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals ...