Astronomers said on Wednesday that they had observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time.

Watch footage of the Sun unleashing an X1.2-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths. Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have discovered a strange new body in a weird orbit at the edge of the solar system, which could be bad news for Planet Nine theories.

Astronomers have unveiled the intricate tale behind a series of powerful solar eruptions called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), that resulted in rare northern lights dancing across Ladakh's night skies ...

From a silhouetted space station to glowing comet tails and swirling stars, this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.

A newborn planetary system is forming around HOPS-315, a protostar (one that recently formed) that sits some 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion the Hunter. This star isn't in the ...

It becomes a red giant, which swallows its companion and then sheds the gas, leaving behind a white dwarf and a star nearby that can feed on it. However, since many stars live in triple-star systems, ...

The Subaru telescope located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawai'i has found a new world within our Solar System, dubbed "Ammonite" by the team who found it. In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted ...

In a rare cosmic moment, the sun positioned itself directly above the Kaaba in Mecca on Tuesday. For Muslims around the world ...

Analysis of meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 suggests that we may have to alter our timeline of the early Solar System, potentially changing our models of planet formation. In 2018, a small meteorite ...