Even astronomers who study peculiar outer space objects have their favorites. Here are some interstellar bodies that have won ...

The glorious guts of a dying star are the means by which astronomers are hoping to discover the very earliest origins of how our planet was born. In the midst of the Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302, located ...

Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on ...

One of the boldest dreams in modern astronomy is the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. These exoplanets may hold oceans, rocky ground, and even atmospheres rich in oxygen or ...

January has a few skywatching treats in store for us, but one of them is lasting the whole month. At least four of the planets will appear brightly in our nighttime winter sky, creating a sort of ...

We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to ...

Understanding exoplanet evolution could help solve the mystery of the 'hot Neptune desert.' As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said Thursday.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense star-forming regions, revealing that Earth-like planets can form even in ...

Ahoy, from the good ship Azamara Onward headed south in the Pacific Ocean for French Polynesia. Wednesday night the “Parade of Planets” was in full and spectacular view. In the southwest sky, glorious ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been tootling across the martian surface since 2012, its lofty quest to determine if Mars ever had environmental conditions suitable for microbial life. While it’s already ...