Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

Scientists examined infrared space surveys to narrow down candidates for Planet 9. Planet 9 would be so far from the Sun that ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from ...

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that shouldn't be the case at all.

Using the Subaru Telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, the team discovered a “Dark Matter bridge” connecting Perseus to a subcluster ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic ...

"The key planet-formation processes in protoplanetary disks remain an active matter of research. One promising mechanism to ...