While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

February will be an awe-inspiring month for astronomy enthusiasts who will be able to the see the solar system's planets ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

When astronomers found a large world farther out than Pluto, it became one of the final nails in the coffin of our ninth ...

Davis Astronomy Club invites everyone on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 25, for a free viewing of the rare alignment of six ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

A rare celestial event where seven planets align is visible in the UK skies. Discover how, when, and where you can observe ...

The team, whose research was published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics ... measure only the mass and the radius of planets outside the solar system. Today, telescopes like ESO's VLT already ...