NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...
The James Webb Space Telescope detected an atmosphere on a lava-covered exoplanet, evidence that small planets close to stars ...
Most of what people casually call “the universe” is not where instinct suggests. Stars, planets and glowing gas clouds are ...
A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...
Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...
An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets within the system can also be seen. - International Gemini ...
By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.
Star Wars fans will be well aware of Tatooine, the desolate, distant world inhabited by human settlers. In the films Tatooine ...
Scientists analysing dark energy say the universe’s expansion may be slowing, raising the possibility gravity could ...
But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...
One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss ...
Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...