Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

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

In astrology, squares occur when two planets — transiting a zodiac sign of the same modality: Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable — form ...

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

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 ...

What can theoretical models teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets? This is what a recent funding ...

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

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

Scientists have discovered what may be the oldest surviving piece of our planet — a tiny chemical clue from the time before ...