A nearby white dwarf is generating three times more energy than expected, hinting at unknown magnetic processes.

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

The web-like features are believed to be sculpted by ancient groundwater, offering new clues about the Red Planet's watery ...

Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been gazing at signals that left the solar system before many of today's graduate students were even born ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...

Settling on the Moon or Mars may be all the buzz. But how about we all move to an icy dwarf planet in the middle of the Solar System? To Ceres. What would make this a good candidate for a space ...