The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

Two of them, the Magellanic Clouds, can be seen with ... let's return to the Andromeda Galaxy and examine it from our vantage point on the dust-grain planet we call Earth. The remarkable thing ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Astronomers have recently unveiled an extraordinary discovery in the cosmos: a new exoplanet named Enaiposha, located 47 ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.