Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

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

5 (UPI) --On this date in history ... It was considered the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system until a year later when Pluto was downgraded from being a planet. In 2008, tribal ...

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

Together, dwarf planets can help scientists learn a lot about ... Miriam Kramer Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years before joining Mashable to cover all ...

Astronomers have detected methane in the nearest known T dwarf, offering new insight ... that the carbon abundance in the planet is estimated to be -1.5 dex, while the effective temperature ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on March 4, 2025, the composite photo shows a potentially destructive white dwarf ...

A surprising chemical difference between Pluto and Sedna, another dwarf planet in the distant Kuiper Belt, is helping scientists nail down their respective masses, a new study reports. The Kuiper ...

The largest object is the asteroid belt is the dwarf planet Ceres, which is 950km in ... Earth and thirty times further from the Sun. At 4.5 billion km from the Sun, it receives very little ...