SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is ...

A distant exoplanet called WASP-107b was observed by NASA’s James Webb, which revealed a giant cloud of helium gas ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

If it feels like the last month of the year has kicked off on an especially dramatic note, you’re simply feeling the vibes of ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...