Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they ...

The sun rises from the east, and sets in the west - this is a well-established fact for the longest time, and this is due to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images ...

The icy giant is more than 10 times the size of any known comet, according to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

Webb has directly imaged a young gas giant planet roughly the size of Saturn, our solar system's second-largest planet ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...