The cosmos is often viewed as a silent, static tapestry, yet recent weeks have reminded us that our solar system is a ...

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

Hubble Space Telescope data reveal that two large collisions near the star Fomalhaut created dust clouds once mistaken for a planet, helping scientists better understand how planetary systems form ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

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