The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, as you may have guessed, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do ...

Infant planets are ravenous little blighters that quickly devour what remains of the star-circling gas and dust clouds in which they form. The gas in these protoplanetary disks disappears rapidly, ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we’ve just taken the first-ever look at the chemical ingredients inside a ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

While the weather might be tough for seeing it tonight, there's a chance to see a 7-planet alignment in the skies tonight in Massachusetts. Supposedly, this will be the last such alignment of planets ...

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

On Aug. 21, a stellar alignment of planets will illuminate the night sky for the last time until the year 2028 HANDOUT/University of Cambridge/AFP via Getty Keep your eyes on the skies, stargazers! A ...

In early 2025, the world observed a rare planetary parade event that won't be seen again until 2040. On the last day of February, seven planets appeared to align at the same time, creating a rare ...