NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a white dwarf star tearing apart an icy, Pluto-like world 260 light-years away, ...

Supermassive black holes are not as massive as previously thought, according to a new discovery by scientists.

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Webb’s MIRI, managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory through launch, helped reveal the star-studded Sagittarius B2 ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

The idea of spending my evenings along the river peering into the heavens sounded fun, so I added a Hestia to my pack. Here’s ...

A supermoon will hang in the night sky bigger and brighter than usual during its perigee, and a great time to head outside to ...

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack.

Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring around a young star.

The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions ...

We’ve been many months without a bright planet in the night sky, but that’s all about to change! On the night of Sunday, Sept. 21, the ringed planet ...

Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.