Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

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While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

A rare image reveals a giant planet clinging to two stars, helping scientists understand how planets survive in chaotic star ...

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed an elliptical galaxy known as ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...