The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

Astronomers have been recording the signal for more than four decades, but this is the first time they've nabbed its origin.

Mysterious planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could be created when young star systems clash. They aren't ...

Life is tenacious and the universe is vast, so some are confident that extraterrestrial life is hiding out there. These ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

So, how did they do it? The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It’s a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's ...

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...