New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

Long-Sought Auroral Glow Finally Emerges Under Webb’s Powerful Gaze Neptune lies in the cold, dark reaches of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles from the Sun, at the farthest ...

Astronomers have identified an exoplanet named Enaiposha, also known as GJ 1214 b, located 47 light-years from Earth.

NASA unveiled the first visuals of auroras on Neptune, captured by the James Webb Telescope. These auroras provide crucial ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon ...

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

As Earth and Saturn enter into a parallel vantage point, the planet’s rings would disappear from certain vantage point on ...

Auroras are an electrical phenomenon when energetic particles, often originating from the Sun, become trapped in a planet’s ...