Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...

This interstellar vagabond is only the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered — an asteroid or comet ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...

The interstellar comet will pass safely by Earth, giving astronomers their best chance to study it up close. Interstellar ...

This is the story of our cosmic neighborhood's front row. We explore the four rocky planets forged in the sun's heat: ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest Earth approach on Dec. 19, offering astronomers a rare chance to study a visitor from beyond the solar system ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

Hot Jupiters were once cosmic oddities, but unraveling how they moved so close to their stars has remained a stubborn mystery ...

The galaxy’s most common stars may be missing a key ingredient for life: Long-lived moons. Most stars in our galaxy are small ...