The Solar System, home to Earth and countless other fascinating planets and moons, exists within the Milky Way galaxy. But ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets ...

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a companion star in a tight orbit around Betelgeuse, resolving a long-standing ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

A proposed Buc-ee's location in Colorado has been met with fierce backlash from locals. Here's why. A 600-year-old Chaucer mystery may finally be solved ...

Cosmic dust is produced by the cycle of star birth and death. Dust condenses around newly formed stars — it's what planets like Earth are built out of, after all — and then is produced in huge ...

More Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula. A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful ...

A Bok globule is a small, dense clump of cosmic dust; millions of them are scattered around our galaxy.