A tiny icy object orbiting beyond Neptune has surprised astronomers by displaying an atmosphere that, according to current ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time — an object previously thought to be too small to support the presence of ...

Artist’s conception of this research showing an imagined time sequence as a star passes behind a TNO with an atmosphere. A team of professional and amateur Japanese astronomers found evidence for a ...

A researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, has published a new study in The Astrophysical Journal suggesting that tiny charged dust ...

The Sun appears to break one of nature's most basic rules. Normally, moving away from a heat source should make temperatures fall. Yet the Sun does the opposite. Its visible surface, known as the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An artistic impression of Trappist-1 b shortly before it ...