In February 2025, a stunning planetary alignment–also known as the planet parade–allowed observers to see seven planets in the night sky simultaneously: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible changes that could help scientists better predict potentially dangerous ...

"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...

What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Stars are far from calm entities. They can erupt in spectacular bursts of energy that disrupt the space around them, and ...

For decades, he hid his time-travel obsession. Now, he is challenging the assumptions that underpin our universe.