The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the closest red supergiant to Earth. It has an enormous volume ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Astronomers have finally imaged the long theorized companion star of Betelgeuse, solving a mystery regarding its dimming that ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

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

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

A team of astronomers discovered a strange object in the outer solar system that is in a resonant orbit with Neptune.