The universe is filled with extraordinary wonders, and among the most awe-inspiring are the truly gigantic stars that dwarf ...

A young star 1,300 light-years away has given astronomers something they have dreamed about for decades: a freeze-frame of ...

Space.com talks to artist and author Martin Vargic, who is turning exoplanets into stunning and intricate art.

The solar system's journey through the galaxy is more complex than most imagine. While we often picture planets orbiting the ...

Astronomers have witnessed the birth of an entirely new star system for the first time. The budding planets are forming ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions about how our solar system came to be. Tiny shavings from a meteorite ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

A seismic shift occurred in astronomy during the Scientific Revolution, beginning with 16th-century polymath Copernicus and his proposal that the Earth revolved around the sun. By the 17th century, ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show. Listen to this article · 5:18 min Learn more.

Astronomers describe Mercury as an "inferior planet", because its orbital path around the sun is much closer than that of Earth. As a result, Mercury never strays far from the sun ...

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...