The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

Some classes of stars create light elements, such as oxygen and silicon; others also craft heavier ones, such as iron and ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws Rory McIlroy blasts ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

What can auroras on a rogue planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address, as an international ...

Using JWST, astronomers uncovered auroras, exotic clouds, and storms on a blazing rogue planet. Brilliant aurora-like ...

Earth's invisible magnetic field acts as a vital shield, protecting life from dangerous cosmic radiation and solar particles.

The mysterious comet 3I/ATLAS is "anomalously massive" compared to past interstellar objects observed in our solar system, a ...