KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

The peak of the2025 Orionid meteor shower coincides with the New Moon, meaning you should be able to see even faint meteors ...

Following the teaching session, the astrophotographers disappeared into the darkness, each selecting a unique observation ...

The first-ever detection of heavy water in a planet-forming disk around a young star offers evidence that the water predates ...

If you’ve ever wanted to know what you’re actually looking at, or just wanted to find cool things like the International ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

The new spectrograph on Chile's SOAR telescope captures Eta Carinae with unprecedented precision, revealing the secrets of ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

All the planets orbit in roughly the same plane because they formed from a single rotating disk of gas and dust — the solar nebula — that flattened as it spun around the young Sun. The shared origin ...

NASA states It’s a protostar (a young star gathering mass from its environment) surrounded by a massive planet-forming disc.