Way back in 1999, NASA's Hubble telescope gathered data from a white dwarf star codenamed HS 0209+0832 with 100 chemical ...

The original Planet Zoo is one of my favorite games of all time, and as far as management and simulation games go, it's a top ...

Claude Code helped a space fan spot a possible planet in seven years of NASA telescope data. The candidate is ~1.4× Earth, ...

A new study suggests that our solar system’s smallest planet has shrunk by up to 30 percent since its birth roughly 4.5 billion years ago ...

Astronomers have discovered the first example of a second-generation planet orbiting a white dwarf, a world that appears to ...

Planet Zoo 2 launches today on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S at $49.99, delivering aquariums, walkthrough aviaries, and a ...

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field known outside our solar system.

Scientists detected the very first exoplanets around a pulsar — a type of rapidly rotating dead star — and because pulsars ...

For decades, scientists and the general public have argued over the astronomical status of beloved dwarf planet Pluto. In the latest salvo, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that he was “very ...

An artist's illustration of a possible ninth planet in our solar system, hovering at the edge of our solar system. Neptune's orbit is shown as a bright ring around the Sun. Scientists in Taiwan ...