The Artemis II mission, which took four US astronauts around the Moon and to a record-breaking distance from Earth, was a ...

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow ...

Far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, a distant world glows with heat so intense that rock itself turns to vapor. In that ...

The JWST discovers an impossible anomaly on TOI-5205 b and challenges everything we thought we knew about giant planets.

For the first time, astronomers have successfully observed a planet in the midst of its formation, a groundbreaking achievement that provides invaluable insights into the processes that shape ...

Next summer, Balmer will continue these inquiries as they and their Northwestern host, Assistant Professor Jason Wang, plan ...

The astro-modified camera used to take this photo lets in the hydrogen alpha light that is normally filtered out. This modification makes the camera more sensitive to the red end of the ...

A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...

A giant planet in the HR 8799 system orbits six times faster than its neighbor, reigniting the mystery surrounding its origin ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

A giant impact is a collision between large planetary bodies during the late stages of formation. These events shape ...

Earth may have won a cosmic chemistry lottery. Researchers found that during the planet’s earliest formation, oxygen had to be in an extremely narrow “Goldilocks zone” for two life-essential elements, ...