NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled imagery of a binary star system, known as R Aquarii, that is reminiscent of ...

Scientists have puzzled over the object known as Gliese 229B, the first known brown dwarf discovered 30 years ago.

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery: some of the earliest and brightest quasars in the universe appear to be “lonely ...

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The test took place inside a massive centrifuge that mimics the elevated gravity conditions of a space mission.

A dwarf planet hiding right in the middle of our solar system could be a surprising source of frozen water, astronomers ...

Researchers have discovered that Gliese 229B is actually a binary system of two brown dwarfs, Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb.

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If you look up at the night sky, you might be able to catch a glimpse of a rare, ancient comet — as long as you’re looking in ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...

You can see the bright bundle of ice and dust until Oct. 24 by using binoculars or a telescope in a dark environment, NASA ...