Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...

By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...

Astronomers said planet PSR J2322-2650b appears to have an exotic helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere unlike any ever seen ...

The communication advises prompt observation of multiple planets visible in the current evening sky. Mars is identified as the highest-altitude planet in this configuration, commonly referred to as ...

It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found until 1992, when humans found another one. But this new planet wasn't in our solar system—it was ...

Astronomy magazine tends to focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth, into the depths of space. But the vast majority of observational satellites around our blue world stare right back at ...