“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Scientists believe our solar system may be hiding a secret world — and it’s not the famous Planet X :eyes: A new study ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...