Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

What if all the planets suddenly doubled in size? Imagine the gravitational, atmospheric, and orbital upheaval across the ...

Explore the vastness of the Solar System in this video, which accurately showcases the relative sizes of the planets and ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems.

Using the JWST, an international team featuring UNIGE scientists has detected enormous clouds of helium streaming away from ...

Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe’s contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and electrons. Most of those atoms cannot be found in stars and galaxies – a ...

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...