Far beyond the bright planets, in the dim outskirts of the Solar System, astronomers keep stumbling on objects that refuse to ...

Take a backroads journey through Alabama’s hidden seafood shacks, where unexpected gems proved some of the best bites in the ...

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

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

At first glance, giant planets called super-Jupiters might seem like close cousins of Jupiter. Some are even ten times more ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe’s contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and electrons. Most of those atoms cannot be found in stars and galaxies – a ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

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

Grant and Cugno used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to pick out the infrared glow from the disk of gas and dust ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

Analysis of early direct images from James Webb telescope show immense dust clouds on brown dwarf that lead to a blurring of ...