At incredibly small scales, the universe operates according to the unfamiliar rules of quantum mechanics. And Planck’s ...

Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some trivia.

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or planetesimals, must ...

The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has captured interstellar cloud Lupus 3. A pair of young stars can bee ...

These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from Earth.

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...