A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Solar wind sounds poetic, but it's a very real and powerful phenomenon, connecting the Sun to every part of our solar system. Unlike the wind we feel .

With an orbital period around one year, much like Earth's 13-hour transit duration, HD 137010 b tantalises as Earth 2.0.

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

When people speak of the northern lights, they are typically referring to Earth’s spectacular display of aurora borealis: ...

An international team of astronomers led from regional Queensland finds an exoplanet 150 light-years away with a 50 per cent ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a colossal missing piece of the Solar System, a giant planet that appears to ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Recently, a group of scientists created a detailed map of this space, showing that the bubble is lopsided in both shape and ...

With an image from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA finds clues outside the solar system that explain crystals born in ...

Scientists may need to broaden their horizons in their search for alien life.