"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

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

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests a planet in a faraway solar system was consumed by a star by hurling ...

Not to mention some sci-fi retro-cool imagery of the inside of a Weyland-Yutani ship.

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...