In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a polar orbit, is rather incredible and ...

Researchers named it ‘Oumuamua, Hawaiian for “scout.” 'Oumuamua was later confirmed to be the first object from another star known to have visited our solar system. While these interstellar objects ...

Independent scientists described the findings as interesting, but not nearly enough to show the existence of life on another ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what ...

Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they’re lighter ... bodies can help us understand how conditions beyond our solar system may yield planets vastly different from our ...