For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

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

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

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

Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System and also the closest planet to the Sun. Mercury orbits the Sun at an incredibly fast speed, averaging nearly 106,000 miles per hour. These are just a ...

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

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

This is the first time scientists have caught a planet appearing to incite its star as it happens. Until now, the energy between stars and their planets was assumed to flow one way: The star ...

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

NASA’s James Webb telescope captured its first direct image of a distant gas giant, revealing groundbreaking insights into planet formation beyond our solar system. Scottish sports journalist ...

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