One of the youngest planets ever found around a distant infant star has been discovered by an international team of...
If you’ve always wanted to discover a planet for your very own, now’s your chance. Researchers are calling on the...
For the first time, physicists have been able to directly measure one of the ways exploding stars forge the heaviest...
The formation of a planetary system is a somewhat messy affair. After a star has finished forming, the swirling, roiling...
With future space exploration in mind, a Cornell-led team of astronomers has published the final maps of Titan’s liquid methane...
NASA launched a spacecraft called Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore Jupiter‘s Trojan asteroids for the first time on...
An early morning launch is planned for the Lucy spacecraft, the first space mission to study Jupiter‘s Trojan asteroids. Tomorrow,...
A NASA spacecraft named Lucy rocketed into the sky with diamonds Saturday morning on a 12-year quest to explore eight...
In the early solar system, a “protoplanetary disk” of dust and gas rotated around the sun and eventually coalesced into...
In our early Solar System, a gigantic protoplanetary disk of dust, rock and gas swirled around the newly formed Sun....
Mysterious structures in the sky that have puzzled astronomers for decades might finally have an explanation – and it’s quite...
Let’s be honest: in the Solar System, there really is no good place for humans that isn’t Earth. But that...
