Pleiades is one of the best star clusters to view in the night sky. They’re known as the Seven Sisters, and in terms of ...

Photographs of planets can fool you. A close crop of swirling cloud bands or a patch of rusty dust can look like almost ...

Astronomers have detected radio emission coming directly from an exoplanet for the first time, identifying auroral radio bursts from the gas giant Beta Pictoris b. Located around 63 light-years away ...

The solar system could be destroyed much sooner than we thought, scientists say - Outer planets could be thrown out into the ...

According to a new study, the Solar System may break apart within about 6 billion years as the dying Sun’s uneven mass loss destabilizes the outer planets.

The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, ...

For more than three centuries, astronomers asking whether the Solar System is stable have received ever more comforting ...

Webb observations reveal how violent collisions between young planetary bodies create distinct dust signatures as rocky ...

In ancient mythology, the phoenix was a miraculous bird with a cyclical pattern of life and death, perishing in flames only to rise again from the ashes. Astronomers have now found a world that ...

Astronomers say they have have detected a radio emission from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth, ...

A small probe has no engine to slow it down and no way to be steered from Earth. If it works, the mission could reveal what ...

Mars-sized object called Theia smashed into the infant Earth, vapourising massive amounts of rock and blasting it into space ...