New observations show that planets forming in protoplanetary disks like that around PDS 70 can trigger the formation of ...

It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

"We must rethink how we create computer models for planet formation and early evolution in the young universe." ...

The scientific understanding of planetary formation has evolved in the years since scientists discovered the first exoplanets ...

Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

Conventional wisdom assumes the ratio of gases in a planet's atmosphere should match the ratio of gases in the natal disk that birthed it. For the first time, researchers compared gases in a ...

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of interstellar space.

A team of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists recently traveled to Antarctica in the hopes of proving—once and for all—that our ...

Astronomers have detected a binary star system orbiting Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO / S. Guisard Just on the outskirts of a supermassive black hole ...