Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea, says Abigail Beall ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Webb Telescope Captures Its ...

(L. Calçada/ESO via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun unlocking secrets about mysterious objects lingering at the outer edges of ...