A debris disk, or a protoplanetary disk, surrounds a young star and is filled with ice water, similar to what we have in the ...

Ever wonder how NASA captures stunning images from deep space probes? Interplanetary scientist John Spencer takes us behind ...

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump ...

Astronomers spotted water around a young, sun-like star for the first time ever, and it could help us understand solar system formation.

The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

The Trump administration's 2026 budget request cuts NASA funding by $6 billion, which would lead to the cancellation of Mars ...

The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice giants in our Solar System. Methane indicates unexpected ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that govern it. In particular, there is the long-standing question of whether or ...

A new European study out Monday throws into question conventional wisdom that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a ...

As NASA rolls out more powerful telescopes in the future, scientists will need a way to determine where to point them. A new ...

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...