Space has a way of making scientists throw out their textbooks. Just when astronomers think they understand how the universe ...

Astronomers have observed a free-floating planet accreting massive amounts of gas and dust, shedding new light on planetary formation.

In a new study, researchers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed human deep space communications and found that human transmissions are frequently directed toward our own ...

Asteroids, comets, and clouds contain complex organic molecules that form in space and might have kickstarted life on Earth ...

Recent research has challenged the traditional view that water on planets must be delivered from space, suggesting instead ...

A groundbreaking discovery was recently made about the largest comet ever observed hurtling toward the sun from the Oort Cloud in the outer reaches of our solar system. Astronomers recently got a ...

The observations expand the range of environments where habitable worlds might emerge. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most ...

The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the probe looked back at its home planet and captured a rare view of Earth, ...

In astronomy, larger distances are both a blessing and a curse. They can cause issues like longer communication times, which also requires more powerful equipment, and positioning uncertainty that can ...

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Astronomers recently peered deep into space and found that an old, faint white dwarf named LSPM J0207+3331, located about 145 ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...