International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

From the water that covers most of it to the moon that orbits it, here are some bizarre things about our home planet that science still doesn't completely understand.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from Earth.

Scientists are using the images and data collected by the probe to understand the sun’s impact on Earth and the solar system.

Scientists find Uranus radiates more heat than once believed, reshaping our understanding of giant planets and guiding NASA’s next mission.

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...