Astronomers have observed a planetary system in its early formation stages around protostar HOPS-315, providing insights into how our solar system may have originated.

Proxima Centauri, just 4.24 light-years from Earth, is the closest known star to our Sun. Though it’s the smallest member of the Alpha Centauri triple system, this red dwarf has captured the attention ...

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.

The globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy that is approximately 160,000 light-years away from Earth.

Rather than being smooth and calm, the cloud is full of fast-moving, tangled filaments of gas—like a three-dimensional ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

The best time to view the Perseids is between midnight and dawn, according to the society. A good day to view them is Thursday, July 24. That's when the new moon is, according to the Farmers' Almanac.

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

"What is remarkable is that the time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern." Using the world's most ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.