Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about its mass and direction. Scientists have known about this and other rogue ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

Finding‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ planets that are outside our solar system, called exoplanets, has changed the way we see the cosmos and our place in it. These faraway planets are extremely hard to find because they ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

The observations expand the range of environments where habitable worlds might emerge. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the ...