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

Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

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

Moons are common throughout the solar system, orbiting planets, asteroids, and even distant Kuiper belt objects. But could a ...

Interstellar comet 3I-ATLAS is a rare cosmic visitor that may be older than our Sun, offering scientists a unique glimpse ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

Ground and space-based telescopes have confirmed a microlensing event caused by a rogue planet wandering silently through the ...

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