Gaseous water has been detected in the planet-forming disk surrounding the star V883 Orionis (ALMA) using the Atacama Large ...

The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

But when the differences are pronounced, there must be some other explanation. New research titled "Metal pollution in Sun-like stars from destruction of ultra-short-period planets" suggests that ...

You may have heard that the Sun may eventually devour the Earth. While this sounds at odds with the planets moving away from ...

The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.

Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet discovered by astronomers at the University of North Carolina is in its ...

In recent years, astronomers have developed techniques to measure the metal content of stars with extreme accuracy. With that ...

"The configuration that we end up with within the solar system is definitely not something that is indeed common," Chen told ...

I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe will pass within 3.83 million miles of the surface of the sun on Dec. 24, and multiple planets will ...

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...