Astronomers have captured the sharpest-ever images of infant planets forming around a distant star, revealing unexpected ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

The Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) has provided some of the clearest images ever taken of planets forming around a ...

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission has officially come online, promising to transform our understanding of space weather. By capturing ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is a gas giant known for its prominent ring system, composed of ice particles, and is the second-largest planet in our solar system, after Jupiter. Saturn is ...