New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Known as the "Parade of Planets," the celestial event will feature appearances from Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune and ...

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

which slowly accretes to form systems of planets. For the past decade, astronomers have relied on the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to study young stars and their ...

Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century ...

In fact, scientists believe that the region where FU Orionis's planet-forming disk touches the star's surface glows at around 16,000 Kelvin — three times hotter than the surface of our sun.