For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our own—and they have been found by the hundreds throughout the Milky Way, ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

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Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class ...

Researchers discovered Eos, a molecular cloud, using ultraviolet light. It is near Earth and lacks carbon monoxide. This ...

New simulation of magnetic turbulence helps scientists study star formation, space weather, and the forces shaping our galaxy ...