Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

Are we alone in the Universe? And where did our planetary home come from? For decades, astronomers have attempted to answer ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class ...

Astronomers have developed a groundbreaking computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) -- the vast ocean of gas and charged ...