Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image ...

Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star, giving us an ...

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per second, according to a new study involving NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

As the Moon reaches New, advanced observers can try photographing 3I/ATLAS while everyone can enjoy nebulae and more in the ...

"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the ...

A baby planet is shrinking from the size of Jupiter with a thick atmosphere to a small, barren world, according to a new ...

"This is an ultra-hot Jupiter, and orbits much closer to its star than any other hot Jupiter ever discovered." ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented snapshot of "time zero," when new worlds begin to gel.

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...