Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

It is Betelgeuse and for hundreds of years astronomers have puzzled why its twinkle grows lighter and then dimmer over time.

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

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

It doesn’t happen often that astronomers manage to find the universe in the process of creating planets. Yet, in a moment as rare as it is revelatory, a global team has directly observed the first ...