SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...
Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...
The Pandora Space Telescope will study 20 promising worlds that could host life ...
A distant exoplanet called WASP-107b was observed by NASA’s James Webb, which revealed a giant cloud of helium gas ...
New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is ...
Astronomers have spotted a distant world "shedding" its atmosphere into space in real time, creating a giant cloud of helium ...
New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...
Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...
If it feels like the last month of the year has kicked off on an especially dramatic note, you’re simply feeling the vibes of ...
If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...
Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...