Depending on how you look at it, UC Irvine doctoral candidate Te Han and his adviser, Paul Robertson, just made an already unimaginably difficult job – finding and observing planets ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

In a cosmic first, scientists identified signs of early planet formation by looking deep into the gas disk around a baby star ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

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 ...

The meteor shower is best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere in the predawn hours, according to NASA, though they are ...