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

For the first time, scientists have continuously monitored a planet's escaping atmosphere over a complete orbit, revealing ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

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

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

Using a powerful combination of space-based measurements and Subaru’s advanced imaging, astronomers have discovered two rare companions, one of which enables a key test for NASA’s Roman Space ...

According to Princeton researchers, the classical belt's structure should be understood as consisting of three major components.

Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets ...

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

The giants might've been kicked out, left to live a rogue lifestyle. A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life.

SQUIRE aims to detect exotic spin-dependent interactions using quantum sensors deployed in space, where speed and ...