Space is so vast that even our largest creations barely register. When you place rockets, space stations, and asteroids next ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Not all planets are small compared to stars. Some grow so massive they approach stellar size, challenging how astronomers ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, ​​the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...

Using images from cameras on Mars orbiters, an international research team has discovered structures on Mars that are very ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Relying on information from NASA's TESS telescope, astronomers Edward Bryant from the University of Warwick and Vincent Van ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...