A young red dwarf can look calm from a distance. But buried in its light may be the chemical remains of a wrecked world.

Astronomers have found some of the strongest evidence yet that stars can swallow their own planets. A new study, published in ...

NASA's new chief wants to reinstate Pluto as a planet. And scientists are on board – as long as you're also okay with having ...

The Solar System is filled with large bodies, between planets, dwarf planets, and large moons. The count goes from dozens to ...

Discover the fascinating story behind Pluto's reclassification from a planet to a dwarf. Explore the criteria set by ...

A new Keck Observatory study indicates that giant planets can spin faster than more massive brown dwarfs, revealing important ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science. Hosted by Dr. Mike Reed, Astro Brief focuses on ...

A triple star system in which the stars all eclipse one another from our vantage point is standing out as one of the best ...

There’s been a fierce debate over the past two decades about the status of the distant icy world of Pluto after it was contentiously stripped of its planethood and reclassified as a dwarf planet. Nasa ...

NASA chief Jared Isaacman’s call to restore Pluto’s planetary status has reignited a long-running scientific debate over ...

Climate change and its impacts are constant, and not just on Earth. We only have to look at our two nearest neighbour planets to see examples of how rampant climate change has transformed them into in ...

Astronomers swept millions of candidates and found no alien signals from K2-18b, setting the first power limit on any ...