Flecks of minerals captured in diamonds show hidden connections between Earth’s surface and its deep interior Nester Korolev ...

Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say ...

How and why do Jupiter-sized exoplanets orbit so close to their stars, also called short-period exoplanets? This is what a ...

Massive star clusters may have blasted enough ultraviolet radiation into space to transform the early universe, new research ...

Largest disk found: Hubble imaged a protoplanetary disk 40 times wider than our solar system, surrounding a young star or binary. One-sided chaos: Towering filaments appear only on one side of the ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” ...

And the views are stunning, too. Astronomers have captured an extraordinary new look at the hidden birthplaces of star ...

Credit: Kamalika Chakraborty A bizarre pair of planets 190 light-years away is forcing astronomers to rethink how planetary ...

Binary star systems may help giant planets form more easily by triggering planet formation far from their stars.

That extends to planets, too. Young stars form with disks of gas and dust around them, and those disks birth planets. If a ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies, studying ...