NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

This allows us to observe the actual feeding process as the planet accumulates mass from its surroundings The system’s young ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

A detailed study of a cosmic mystery known as "The Accident" has now provided new insight into the formation of clouds on ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

According to China's space agency, the government is preparing to test a direct method of planetary defense by sending a ...

Some planets may be soot-rich rather than water-based. Atmosphere studies will be key to understanding their true nature. Astronomers generally consider water worlds to be among the most common types ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...