Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers ...

A glorious, colorful image captured by a telescope in Chile shows the bright glow of star cluster RCW 38, where young stars are being born.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and ...

Our solar system has the Kuiper Belt, but we're not the only ones wearing a snazzy ring of ice shards and space rocks. Countless other star systems boast belts of their own, which astronomers believe ...

An international team of researchers, including those from the University of Michigan, have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to witness the birth of planets around the young star system PDS ...

The US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the state of Bavaria will build a radio telescope on top of Germany’s highest mountain.

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

While astronomers often set their sights on the stars, the landscapes surrounding their observatories can be just as ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

From fiery festivals to nature's most dazzling "sky-dance", interest in the night skies is booming, with "noctourism" poised ...