Espinoza is a leader in the new massive James Webb Space Telescope study of rocky worlds, specifically to find out if planets ...

Scientists have confirmed a potentially habitable fifth planet in the nearby L 98-59 system, revealing a diverse collection ...

You’d think we’d have the solar system pretty well figured out by now. It’s our own cosmic backyard, after all. […] ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was first identified by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a global network of four ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

A mysterious interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, discovered in July 2025, has sparked debate among astronomers. While most believe ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

For the first time, astronomers have successfully observed the earliest stages of planet formation around a star outside our ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope and Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea discovered a “fossil” of our early ...

To understand the possibility of a new planet, we need to know where our current ones came from. About 4.6 billion years ago, our Solar System formed from a swirling cloud of gas and dust.

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.