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

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 ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

An oddly tilted object beyond Neptune moves in perfect sync, one orbit for every ten of Neptune’s, and scientists are ...

The universe is filled with extraordinary wonders, and among the most awe-inspiring are the truly gigantic stars that dwarf our Sun in both size and power. In this 4K documentary, journey through ...

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

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 ...

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.

If this doesn't seem like a big deal, consider that every image you have ever seen of the sun was taken from around our star's equator. That is because Earth, the other solar system planets, and ...