Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the mass of a rogue planet, a celestial body wandering through space ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

A parade of planets is coming this January, but if you miss it, you can catch it in later months. Six planets in our solar system, namely Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, and Saturn will be ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Astronomers tracking a nearby star system thought they had spotted an exoplanet reflecting light from its star. Then it ...

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Smaller planets might be born when gas and dust is squeezed between larger worlds like the filling in a cosmic sandwich. The newly suggested process — dubbed "sandwiched planet formation" — would ...

If Earth-like planets require an extremely rare supernova encounter, then water-depleted rocky planets might be exceptional. But if cosmic-ray immersion is sufficient—and common—then the conditions ...

The month brings a strong lineup of celestial sights, including a supermoon, meteor activity, and several close moon-planet ...