In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system ...

Young star systems are a place of violent collisions. Rocks, comets, asteroids and larger objects carom off one another and ...

Scientists just discovered a volcano in the Pacific Ocean hiding something no one expected. Deep underwater, strange giant ...

Outer space never fails to remind us just how much we don't know. Astronomers have uncovered a lemon-shaped planet that ...

But in this case, the companion is officially considered an exoplanet, not a star. The International Astronomical Union ...

We got our first look at images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which will forever change how we monitor the night sky.

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...

For decades, researchers have been studying the formation of rings around planets like Saturn in an attempt to understand what criteria have to be met in order to make and sustain these rings. It was ...

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

Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...