Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Telescope discovered a possible new dwarf planet that, if confirmed, could join 5 others ...

Researchers have discovered a white dwarf surrounded by a debris disk with 2 separate rings. It offers a possible glimpse of ...

This video depicts a simulation of millions of small solar system objects that astronomers said the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will discover in the next 10 years. Video via Jake Andrew Kurlander/ ...

You can be moving at extraordinary speed and still feel completely stationary. The reason comes down to the difference between velocity and the changes in motion your body can actually detect.

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a bizarre, potentially historic discovery: the first moon ever detected beyond our ...

For years, astronomers have been searching for a mysterious ninth planet lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar system. Now, a team of researchers have taken a completely different approach to ...

Is alien invasion armageddon coming for us in November? That's the speculation set off by a legitimate academic study recently published by a team of scientists. In early July, a previously ...

“The Sun’s death is not an event the planets will quietly survive—it is the trigger for their orbital undoing.” Reading time 3 minutes Our Sun is just like any other star. That is, eventually the Sun ...

Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to sophisticated simulations using thousands of different starting points. A ...