Objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding ...

Watch the Sept. 21 partial solar eclipse live online with this handy livestream. Coverage begins at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT).

Astronomers are uncovering the earliest stages of planet formation with the help of technologies like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Recent findings from the Butterfly Nebula, 3,400 ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Astronomers have uncovered the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being consumed by a white ...

The planet is part of a planetary system about 40 light-years away from Earth called TRAPPIST-1, which five Belgian ...

Astronomers have discovered a distant white dwarf star consuming an icy, Pluto-like planetesimal. This finding reshapes our understanding of what can survive post-star death.

This cosmic drama offers a unique glimpse into the future fate of our own Solar system and highlights the power of Hubble’s ultraviolet vision to probe stellar remains that would otherwise go ...

A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors during formation. Instead of vast oceans, ...

In what we can only interpret as a show of solidarity for the Solar System's beleaguered dwarf planet Pluto, the Sun put its heart prominently on its sleeve atmosphere.

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Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...