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

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 ...

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

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

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

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

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

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, ...

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

We like to think that our solar system is eternal, but one day, its very epicenter will die. Our Sun, like all stars, had a ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...