New films screening this week are putting the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, back in the spotlight, with compelling ...

Our sun, currently in its prime, is expected to shine for another 5 billion years. Eventually, it will transform into a red ...

The photos reveal a bright and well-developed coma, the cloud of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus, with striking ...

In a cosmic first, scientists watched planet-forming materials begin to solidify around a newborn star, offering a peek into ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

Explore the fascinating motion of our Solar System as it journeys not just around the Sun, but also through the vastness of the Milky Way galaxy and the Universe beyond. This in-depth video unpacks ...

In a surprising cosmic revelation, Uranus is found to be engaged in a unique orbital dance with a Centaur named 2015 OU₁₉₄.

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

Despite the powerful telescopes that modern astronomers have to work with, the distant reaches of the Solar System are still ...