How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers confirmed the ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around ...

This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken over ...

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle ...

A gorgeous new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a bustling region of star formation at the distant edge of the Milky Way. Called, dramatically enough, the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this ...

Astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at the Extreme Outer Galaxy, observing dynamic activity and vivid star formation.

Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

In a distant galaxy called Makani, particles of dust were warmed by the light of newborn stars before being flung out into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a new image of a galaxy famously named after the Mexican hat style.

David Charbonneau, Professor in Search of Planets in Outer Space, Wins $1 Million Kavli Prize Harvard Astrophysics professor David Charbonneau won the 2024 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics in June.

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet ...