Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon molecule missing from Jupiter and Saturn’s skies. Its ancient, oxygen-poor ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

Astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the theory behind the growing evidence about a possible hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.

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Astronomers have been fascinated after spotting an object earlier this year that came from interstellar space as is now hurtling through our inner solar system. Regardless, it’s an interesting visitor ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of exoplanets does not include more than 8,000 additional candidate planets ...

Just decades after the first exoplanets were identified, our database of the distant worlds—monitored by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute—has breached a new threshold. Now, astronomers have ...

If you're an adherent of the games media hype train, it may seem like there's been a real dearth of space games in recent ...