The solar system lost its ninth planet back when Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, but research might indicate that there ...

The coldest planet in the Solar System is Uranus, which is surprisingly colder than Neptune due to its unique internal heat ...

Our sun sits at the centre of our solar system orbited by eight planets. It is an ordinary star, one of billions such stars orbiting the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. Its proximity to Earth (about ...

ALIENS might be lurking on a far-off ocean planet in an "astounding" discovery, Britain’s brainiest scientists have told The Sun. Top alien-hunting astronomers at the University of Cambridge say ...

The autumn night sky in Ireland is an observer's treasure-trove and the first celestial event of the season arrives on ...

A team of astronomers from Taiwan has uncovered promising evidence suggesting the existence of Planet 9, a hypothesized planet beyond Pluto in the far reaches of our Solar System. This new potential ...

WISPIT 2b was detected as part of a five-year observational research project during which the international team sought to ...

Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory has photographed a massive butterfly-shaped coronal hole on the Sun. Solar wind from the ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.

Astronomers have detected a new planet around the star closest to the Sun. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) in Chile, they found evidence of the body orbiting ...

A young gas giant, WISPIT 2b, was detected within a multi-ringed disk around a Sun-like star. Its active formation provides a ...