New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Thanks to an enormous stroke of luck and serendipitous timing, astronomers were able to calculate the mass and distance of a ...

Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and ...

Astronomers have measured the mass and distance of a rogue planet using gravitational microlensing observed from Earth and ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Short-lived radioisotopes such as aluminum-26 influenced early solar system heat, water retention and the formation of Earth-like rocky planets, according to meteorite analyses and models.

Every planet in the solar system leans, some gently, some dramatically, and that tilt quietly shapes everything from our ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet beyond our Solar System.