Astronomers have found a rare form of methanol, a type of alcohol, in a planet-forming disk, providing a critical step in ...

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.

A new study challenges the long-standing assumptions about the origin of Mars’s moons by suggesting the Red Planet may have ...

The astronomers discovered the planet when searching through more than 91,000 low-mass red dwarfs observed by NASA's TESS ...

A debris disk, or a protoplanetary disk, surrounds a young star and is filled with ice water, similar to what we have in the ...

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars ...

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

Neptune is curious about why Saturn has rings and turns to Uranus for answers, leading to a touch of jealousy.

This week, see how gold is leaking from the planet’s core, watch sharks sharing a communal meal, unearth Egyptian tombs, and ...