The size of the Solar System and the Universe is truly beyond our comprehension. When we think of the vastness of space, we ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

The discovery was made by astronomers using the Subaru Telescope, which is situated atop a dormant volcano in Hawaii.

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

The solar wind plasma goes from moving at about 400 kilometers per second (900,000 miles per hour) to being diverted and ...

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 launch has obtained valuable data on various ...

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

Astronomers have long sought to understand the processes that lead to the birth of planetary systems. Recently, a major ...