The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

The US, China, India, Europe and Japan all have exciting missions on the horizon in 2026. Many of them are collaborative ...

Shining in the constellation Gemini near the bright stars Pollux and Castor, Jupiter's opposition is the best time to see the ...

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 ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

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