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.

“Bit by bit, these tiny building blocks land on rocky planets within a newly formed solar system. If those planets happen to ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing link in planet formation.

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

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

Scientists believe our solar system may be hiding a secret world — and it’s not the famous Planet X :eyes: A new study ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

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

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential for life as we know it can form readily in space. This discovery, ...