The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states that Earth and humans do not occupy a special or privileged place in the ...

Using Pluto as an example, this celestial body, once considered the ninth planet, was redefined as a dwarf planet in 2006. Its average distance from the Sun is about 5.9 billion kilometers, a distance ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

Why does humanity live on a planet orbiting a rare G-type dwarf star (like our Sun) when M-type red dwarfs comprise 82% of ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

In several billion years, our sun will become a white dwarf. What will happen to Jupiter and Saturn when the sun transitions to become a stellar remnant? Life could go on, though the giant planets ...

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hop | Space ...

Northern lights, or auroras, are not exclusive to Earth. Astronomers have already detected this phenomenon on most planets ...

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 ...