This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

This breathtaking picture reveals a star 'destructing' - and possibly 'murdering' a nearby planet.The never-before-seen ...

The seven planets in the system closely orbit their star, so that if TRAPPIST-1 were ... before joining Mashable to cover all things outer space. She took a ride in weightlessness on a zero ...

Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently ... of exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST.

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

It was a huge one, in Chicago; it seemed as big as space itself ... I looked up at that epic black domed sky and thought the stars and planets were real. I felt in sync with them, almost part ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed of chunks of rock and ice like comets, dwarf planets, and random objects ...

which form when stars like the sun run out of fuel for nuclear fusion, shedding their outer layers as their cores collapse and forming a cooling stellar ember. Breaking space news, the latest ...

Shohei Ohtani may be the best two-way baseball player on planet Earth, but an astronaut who hails from the same country has ...