Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Could humans live on Ceres someday? Consider the possibilities of colonizing the dwarf planet in our solar system.

Aliens may have lived in our solar system, according to new research. NASA scientists have unveiled evidence that the dwarf ...

JWST has detected rare silane gas in an ancient, oxygen-poor brown dwarf, revealing a key clue to why Jupiter and Saturn hide ...

Times listed are from The Sky This Week by Astronomy magazine, calculated for 40°N, 90°W. Central Wisconsin observers can expect sunrise, ...

Red dwarf hurls plasma at speeds rarely seen from Sun, potentially stripping atmospheres from orbiting planets ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit ...

There are no confirmed exomoons, moons orbiting distant exoplanets in other solar systems. There are a few candidates, but ...

Wausau Pilot & Review Mercury meets Mars as the Moon wanesCentral Wisconsin skywatchers will find this week packed with ...

Ceres is the largest 'asteroid' in our solar system, big enough that it's actually classified as a dwarf planet, like Pluto.

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to find an intact gaseous atmosphere. Not only is it incredibly cold, being ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to have gobbled up an icy world akin to the ...