The world’s largest digital camera has just delivered on its promise, catching a massive, fast spinning asteroid in the act ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...

New calculations reported by Live Science indicate Jupiter was once much larger and is still contracting as it cools, offering constraints on early solar system conditions.

The most striking claim about 3I/ATLAS is its estimated age range of 8-14 billion years. This analysis, led by Michele ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

Out in the depths of space, somewhere in between Mars and Jupiter, is a newly discovered asteroid that's breaking records.

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

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

Data centers are hot. Literally. In the U.S., data centers burn through more than 4% of total annual energy consumption, says ...

Key takeawaysPlanets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar ...

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

Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...