The James Webb Space Telescope has detected a possible gas giant the size of Saturn in the stellar system nearest our own ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

But in reality, it may be the beginning of a new phase of life for all the objects living in the solar system. When stars ...

A new rectangular telescope design could finally spot Earth-like planets around nearby stars, bringing the search for alien ...

The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of their oldest tools: the telescope’s mirror. A new study led by Dr. Heidi Newberg of ...

These distant worlds are called exoplanets: planets that exist outside our solar system. Most of the exoplanets scientists have discovered so far orbit stars within the Milky Way, but some lie even ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...