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

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

A study led by Jenny Frediani at Stockholm University has revealed a planet-forming disk with a strikingly unusual chemical composition: an unexpectedly high abundance of carbon dioxide (CO2) in ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has captured a striking new image of massive, wind-carved sand formations known as "megaripples" ...

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

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

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

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

I am a professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2020, my colleagues and I discovered the first intact planet orbiting around a white dwarf. Since then, I’ve been fascinated by ...

A study led by Jenny Frediani at Stockholm University has revealed a planet-forming disk with a strikingly unusual chemical composition: an ...

Theories on planet formation are extensive, but evidence is sometimes lacking. It has now been observed how an exoplanet ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago.