In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

Most disks observed were about 30 astronomical units wide, roughly 30 times the Earth-Sun distance. The presence of intricate structures in such early systems implies a parallel evolution of infant ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The Owl Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula — a type of object that yields glimpses of stellar death in slow motion.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of ...

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has imaged an exoplanet. I know what you’re thinking: “JWST ...

If you looked at the churning clouds near Jupiter’s pole, they appear like ocean currents on Earth — as if you’re looking at ...

The Guardians of the Galaxy movies were full of exotic and alien planets that look cooler than anything we’ll ever have on ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...