For the first time, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has seen a young star forge crystals in blazing heat and hurl them to ...

“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Scientists have recently focused their telescopes on a mysterious planet drifting through space, a discovery that has captured the imagination of astronomers worldwide. This Jupiter-like wanderer, ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

We have all been taught in school that planets revolve in the same direction as the Earth, i.e., in the counterclockwise ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...