SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Welcome to SolarBalls! This channel features entertaining space animations that help you learn about the solar system and the ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as the ...

Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a ...

Thousands of exoplanets have been found, but only a few stand out as truly Earth-like. These 16 may be the most promising ...

Don your tinfoil hat and delve into a game-changing documentary on Amazon Prime Video that appears to confirm the existence of alien life. For millennia, humans have looked to the stars and wondered ...