Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

Deep in space, astronomers have witnessed a rare and powerful moment: the birth of planets around a distant baby star. This ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

The telescope’s discoveries will include millions of supernovas exploding across the universe and millions of asteroids flying through our solar system. What’s New About This Telescope?

From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the worldwide astronomical community.