Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...

Transmissions between Earth and our own spacecraft could tell us where to look for potential alien transmissions.

In June 2024, astronomers detected a peculiar series of repeating radio signals from deep space, named FRB 20240619D. Using ...

Which is where No Man's Sky new Voyagers update comes in. Now, those long treks across the infinite expanse needn't be quite ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains multiple gaps and channels, almost akin to a vinyl record.

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...

Astronomers propose a new hypothetical planet, Planet Y, beyond Neptune, based on observed orbital anomalies in the Kuiper ...