The dwarf planet Makemake, which chills out in the deep freeze of the outer Solar System, might be home to an ice volcano 1.

The changing faces of Pluto| This is the most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

For a long time, children learning about space in school were taught that there were nine planets in our solar system. Then, ...

A large planet has been spotted orbiting a dwarf star that is just 3 million years old, offering possible clues to how the ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

In a major yet surprising turn of events, astronomers have recently discovered a newborn planet orbiting around a young ...

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

Ever since Pluto was demoted from planet status, astronomers believe a real Planet Nine exists in the solar system ...

It resides alongside the remnants of the disk of dense gas and dust circling the host star - called a protoplanetary disk - ...