A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

Hubble spots the largest known planet forming disk, chaotic and lopsided, hiding a young star 1,000 light years away, raising ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

Here is a look at just a few of the biggest developments in astronomy that The Debrief has been tracking in 2025.

A disk 40 times the diameter of our solar system has been discovered by the Hubble Telescope, which is likely an image of ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured asteroids crashing into one another in a nearby planetary system around a star some 25 ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

A Harvard University astrophysicist has ignited intense debate after saying he cannot rule out the possibility that ...