A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

The rings of Saturn will temporarily “disappear” this weekend, though most stargazers will be unlikely to see it. The rings are not actually going away, but will be imperceptible ...

Victoria Airport Authority has unveiled the YYJ Solar System Pathway designed by 17-year-old Evan Papps, an aspiring ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...