A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

Consequently, even though it is one of the closest stars to Earth, such that its light takes only six years to get here, it ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. Astronomers used the powerful ...

In deep space, far beyond our solar system ... on LTT 9779 b transport atmospheric elements around the planet. A conception ...

Our planet is just the right distance from the ... Our Sun is just one of many billions of stars in our galaxy, which is called the Milky Way. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy and our Solar ...

Weather has delayed NASA’s launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

Hussain said the findings would include the 29th five-planet system found in our galaxy. "It feels good,” said Hussain. “Because I can go back to my application essay and I specifically say ...

Given the trillions of galaxies out there and hundreds of billions of stars in our own galaxy, statistically, we know too little to say with any certitude that we are a rare planet in the greater ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an intriguing signal: They found two objects traveling together ...