Astronomers now claim that our solar system may be inside a nebula. This documentary explores the evidence, the science, and what it means for life on Earth.

Astronomers have just confirmed around 170 rogue planets drifting freely near our solar system. This documentary explores how they were found and the mysteries they hold.

Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, said: “TRAPPIST-1e has long been considered one of the best habitable zone ...

A striking new image of the strange interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has revealed it is growing a tail, offering more proof that it is a comet visiting our Solar System. At such a critical moment in US ...

On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what's next in deep space exploration.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that's hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab ...

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

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 dwarf planet Pluto, a finding with ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...