While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

One of the most notable baby stars in the galaxy, T Tauri, could be about to vanish from sight for decades as a thick, ...

San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin (6) before the gameagainst the Pittsburgh Pirates at ...

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars.

Astrophysicists have achieved a major breakthrough by capturing images of exocomet belts around 74 nearby stars. Using the ...

An incredibly rare sight can be seen in the Australian skies until Thursday - and won't reappear for another 800,000 years.

Behind the planets in the solar system is the Kuiper Belt. An inventory of similar structures around other stars shows how unusual it is.

An observatory on Maunakea played a pivotal role in a groundbreaking study that sheds light on the birth and evolution of ...

NASA launched the New Horizons probe which would provide never-before-seen images of the dwarf planet, its moons and other objects.

Arrokoth is composed of two separate bodies, 3 and 9 miles across. In the distant past they rotated so slowly about each other that their mutual gravitational attraction caused them to come together ...

The instrument is the Prime Focus Spectrograph, and it is one of the flagship instruments in the next era of the Subaru ...