On January 5, 2005, astronomers at NASA discovered Eris, the second-largest dwarf planet in the solar system. Eris is just ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Carnegie's Luke Bouma presented exciting new research at the American Astronomical Society meeting revealing how large clumps ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

Pluto's days, though they drag on a bit at around 153 hours, are nothing compared to its years. Pluto's orbit takes 248 Earth ...

The 247th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS 247) is being held Jan. 4 to Jan. 8 and will feature remarkable ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

Decades in the making, NASA's X-ray timelapse shows a stellar explosion expanding into space at up to 2% the speed of light.

Webb observations of the Sextans A galaxy reveal how stars in a metal-poor areas create cosmic dust, offering clues about the ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one ...

Jupiter-like planet 8 UMi b, named Halla, orbits its host red giant star Baekdu closely. The red giant's merger with a white ...