Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever spotted, travelling over 130,000 mph and carrying chemical signatures older than our Sun ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, chaotic bundles of turbulent gas, churned up by huge gulps of intergalactic gas, ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

New research from Rice University shows that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, played a major role in shaping ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

To help with this, scientists have built the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a powerful tool designed to capture light ...

These young-star outbursts likely have tremendous power to strip away or alter the atmospheres of nearby planets. Until now, scientists could only measure the cooler parts of these stellar explosions, ...

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed look at a carbon-rich disk surrounding the exoplanet CT Cha ...