Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...
Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...
New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...
Not all planets are lucky enough to live in a neighborhood like our Solar System – some are doomed to roam the cosmos alone.
Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...
Happy New Year, one and all. January 2026 begins with Mercury, our planet of plans and words, the mind and the mouth, moving ...
A young world drifting alone through space is putting on one of the most violent growth spurts astronomers have ever seen, ...
Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation, and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...
Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...
Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...
THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...
By combining observations from Earth and the Gaia Space Telescope, astronomers weighed a lonely world wandering the Milky Way ...