Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...

Sometimes in science a negative result is just as important as a positive one. And sometimes data artifacts get the better of ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to ...

Get ready to explore the Red Planet — our dusty, windswept neighbor that's captured human imagination for centuries. Mars is ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strong evidence for a giant planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest ...

Transmissions between Earth and our own spacecraft could tell us where to look for potential alien transmissions.

Prior to flybys, scientists used mathematical laws and observation to determine the characteristics of the planets.