What exactly is a "normal" solar system? If we thought we had some idea in the past, we definitely don't…
A new study shows that the surface of Ganymede was once a very tectonically active place, with evidence of slip-faulting…
A collision between a white dwarf and a brown dwarf created the object we call CK Vulpeculae. It was first…
A pair of astronomers combing through data from the Kepler spacecraft have discovered the first exomoon. The moon is in…
Astronomers have found a new dwarf planet way out beyond Pluto that never gets closer than 65 AUs to the…
New images from the European Southern Observatory show the stunning variety of discs of gas and dust that surround young…
70,000 years ago, Scholz's Star visited our neighbourhood, and changed the trajectories of hundreds of objects in out Solar System.
NASA's HAMMER (Hyper-velocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response) is a plan to protect us from asteroids, either with kinetic…
Each of Jupiter's poles is a beautiful, geometric arrangement of Earth-sized cyclones. In the north, 8 storms surround one central…
The Hubble has detected a massive dust cloud 150 billion miles across around the young star HR 4796A.