In reality, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of natural satellites, in our cosmic ... to be considered planets in their own right. So exactly how many solar system moons have we found?

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

At about 6 light years away, Barnard's star is the nearest single star - one not orbiting with other stars - to our solar system ... any Earth-sized planets residing in the habitable zone but ...