Using the ALMA telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system for the first time. In research published on Wednesday, scientists observed the ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Public observing sessions at the Owl Observatory in Kalamazoo are free to the public. Two more will take place this summer on ...

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system. But with the Rubin Observatory now scanning ...

The best time to view the Perseids is between midnight and dawn, according to the society. A good day to view them is ...

It’s certainly possible to consume water sourced from the icy rings of Saturn, but doing so safely may require extra steps ...

“Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories, helping us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems,” ...

The Perseids, considered by astronomers to be the best meteor shower of the year, are about to begin. The meteor shower occurs annually from about July 17 to Aug. 23, typically peaking in mid-August, ...