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

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

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

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

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

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

While last week's stunning auroras delighted many people across Australia, a massive solar storm that hit last year squeezed ...

Learn more about volcanic activity on Mars and how it may have once provided vital elements to the atmosphere.

These young, hot blue stars are members of the Pleiades open star cluster and resides about 430 light-years away in the ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure ...

That’s also true for the other moons that provide the gravitational stress. As a result, the internal oceans may actually ...

Deep in the Libyan Sahara lies Jabal Arkanū, a massive, near-perfect set of stone rings once mistaken for a meteorite impact ...