Flybys of Jupiter’s fiery moon Io, carried out by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, are helping to solve the enduring mystery of why ...

New radio astronomy observations of a planetary system in the process of forming show that once the first planets form close to the central star, these planets can help shepherd the material to form ...

The solar system, long believed to be a relatively stable and isolated system of planets, moons, and distant bodies, may have ...

As large parts of the Northern Hemisphere play the game of wondering if it will snow for Christmas, we thought it might be ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecting a ...

Researchers have detected a giant tail of gas leaking from an exoplanet near Earth. The giant structure, which is up to ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

Heavy hydrogen could be important in long-range detections of civilizations, says a pioneering astronomical study.

In October 2024, a diverse group of scientists gathered to think outside the box on evolution. They wanted to step back and ...

New observations show that newly formed planets close to a star help shepherd dust and gas to create more planets farther out ...

Named WASP-69 b, the exoplanet is a super-hot gas giant that orbits its host star closely. What captured the astronomer’s ...

By doubling the number of known "dark comets," astronomers have been able to split them into two camps depending on their ...