NASA's TRACERS mission and three other smallsat missions are scheduled to be launched from Vandenberg SFB aboard a ...

Incredible images reveal the moment a new planet begins to sculpt spirals of dust and gas around its home star, located over ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

A nebula where young stars sculpt dragon-like forms has been imaged in colorful detail by the Dark Energy Camera in Chile.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

SYFY ’s The Ark follows the crew of an interstellar spacecraft on a multi-light-year journey to the star next door. In the ...

Imagine being able to replay the formation of the Solar System, not in theory or simulation, but in real time, around a distant star. Just that is what scientists have achieved, capturing the first ...

NASA issued a challenge to those with rocket design capabilities. The agency needs the public's help designing an ejection system in its SPEED project.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

So does Cedar Barg, a climate network manager for the Wild Center, which is in upstate New York and has been running youth ...

Learn how laser tech, 3D printing & bio-materials are reshaping off-Earth construction for lunar & Martian habitats.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new simulations show.