Astronomers think small space rocks from beyond our solar system routinely strike Earth—but proving it isn’t easy ...

Finding an exoplanet in a star’s habitable zone always generates interest. Each of these planets has a chance, even if it’s ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design  — suiting in bunny suits, booties, ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

To the point - First tentative detection of prebiotic molecules in a planet-forming disc: In the young V883 Orionis system, ...

Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull on each other in a binary system. They interact, they irradiate one another, ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

A team of astronomers confirms the existence of a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a 35-liter red dwarf.

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...