In a cosmic first, scientists identified signs of early planet formation by looking deep into the gas disk around a baby star ...

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, NASA said.

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or planetesimals, must ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

Using the powerful Very Large Telescope in Chile, they captured dazzling near-infrared images of a spiral-armed disk, ... Scientists may have spotted a giant new planet forming Date: June 10, 2025 ...

Astronomers have filmed what seems to be the birth of a new planet within a swirling disk of dust and gas around a young star. On June 9, researchers photographed the cosmic event through the ...

Using ALMA, Teague's team captured images of 15 young star systems sprinkled in space between a few hundred to 1,000 light-years from Earth. Rather than rely on direct detection of a young planet ...

Scientists may have found a new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system that orbits two failed stars. Located 120 light years away, the planet appears to take an unusual path around two ...

In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the many types of objects that Hubble can investigate, from planets to nebulae ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be fair—but one of the largest yet discovered and with an orbit around ...

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.