Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

Marlins left-hander Braxton Garrett knows Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium very well. After being selected in the 2016 MLB Draft, the second stop in Garrett's professional career was with the Jupiter ...

New analysis on 2017 Hubble images of the Jupiter-family comet, 41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresak (41P/TGK), indicates that the ...

The Oort Cloud is often described as the outermost boundary of the solar system, but its true role remains uncertain. This vast, invisible region of icy objects may extend far beyond the orbits of ...

Predicted to reach perihelion again in 2028, it will give astronomers a chance to get additional insights.

A mysterious object has caused a long-lasting and extreme dimming of a distant star, but is this object a 'failed star' brown dwarf, or an exceptionally massive super-Jupiter exoplanet?

A city-sized green comet, C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś), is approaching Earth and will soon be ejected into interstellar space, ...

A distant star dimmed by 97% for nearly 200 days. Astronomers say giant rings around a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter may explain it.

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

Things are much bigger outside the solar system.

Astronomers have reported one of the longest stellar dimming events ever recorded, with a Sun-like star fading by 97 percent for nearly 200 days. Astronomers believe one of the longest stellar dimming ...