Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

These distant worlds are called exoplanets: planets that exist outside our solar system. Most of the exoplanets scientists have discovered so far orbit stars within the Milky Way, but some lie even ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own Sun. In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to ...

All good things must come to an end, and that is even true for planets. Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to ...

The NASA spacecraft tasked with uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, king of the planets, is running out of time. The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the ...

Just 4.3 light years from Earth lies a star called Alpha Centauri A, which is famous for being the nearest star that resembles our own sun. In the popular Avatar movies, this star's system is home to ...