The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

That's a big deal, as "PLATO is on track for the final key tests to confirm that it is fit for launch," ESA officials wrote ...

It's one of life's biggest unanswered questions: if there's life beyond Earth, why hasn't it contacted us? Now, a scientist ...

NASA officials respond to reports claiming an exoplanet-hunting balloon crashed in Texas, with the project’s lead scientist explaining what really happened.

This is peculiar, but it is not the first marshmallow planet discovered. Others have sported this extreme low density. What's ...

Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of ...

A new study explores how eccentric warm Jupiters - giant exoplanets with unusual oval orbits - form, offering clues about the ...

The Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory is thrilled to be your guide to the skies. In this column, I’ll be clarifying some of ...

CO₂ ice blocks on Mars may dig gullies as they slide and sublimate in the thin atmosphere. In lab experiments, scientists recreated these eerie, worm-like movements under Martian conditions. The ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...