Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Forget asteroid mining and bases on Titan. In Part 2, we continue our ruthless scientific audit of the solar system. We evaluate the Moon, Ceres, Europa, Titan, and Pluto, assigning a realistic ...

Located 446 light-years from Earth, this planet, dubbed 'HD 143811 b', orbits a 'binary system' where two stars swirl around ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

For decades, Pluto was our solar system's ninth planet. This video explains the scientific journey that led to its ...

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have created an extraordinary set of images showing debris disks in a wide ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...

Traces of comets and asteroids in distant solar systems: In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris disk". The disk ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...