Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

The transition of a star into a white dwarf can be catastrophic for surrounding planets. The process causes major changes in the star’s mass and radius, destabilizing planetary orbits.

A dramatic cosmic event is winding up to occur right in our backyard. Astronomers have spotted a pair of stars bound for ...

A few years ago, Google gave people the ability to freely explore objects in space — but that experience was mostly locked up in Google Earth, the company's 3D-mapping software. This week ...

A screenshot of James’s animation “Planets and dwarf planets to scale in size, rotation speed & axial tilt in distance order from Sun”. Credit must be given to the creator. Only ...

And at just 600 miles wide, Ceres is one of the smallest dwarf planets in our solar system ... and its lonely location is the material that the volcano is made of — ice. Scientists have long ...