What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

The alien world orbits a dim, reddish ball of gas called a red dwarf star in the northern constellation Lyra. Scientists ...

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it could be more than 3 billion years older than the solar system.

NASA spotted something moving in one of the moons of Jupiter. Some natural satellites have similar structures to the Earth, and this one is very intriguing.

U-M astronomy is helping understand this fast, old and large comet that was born outside our galactic neighborhood This diagram shows the trajectory ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...