The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

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Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.

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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

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

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

Heat waves that are impossible to survive without air-conditioning could soon afflict far more of the globe than they do now, ...

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

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

A small object, 2015 DJ155, roughly the size of the Statue of Liberty, is expected to pass by Earth on January 31, traveling ...