Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory team has released several 3D models of celestial onbjects that you can print. Credit: ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the United States opened in Chicago in 1930, while the first one in Asia opened in ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, speeding through our celestial neighborhood.

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the ...

More NASA scientists have confirmed that a mysterious object shooting toward us through the solar system is an "interstellar object" — only the third of its kind ever seen.

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object." The cosmic interloper, officially named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third ...

This new dwarf planet may exist at the edge of the solar system, possibly disproving Planet Nine's existence. This is the story of that newly encountered planet.

What can NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission teach scientists about solar wind and space weather? This is what findings presented at the 246th American Astronomical ...