When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

Andor was great and all… but imagine Darth Vader stomping through a gritty Disney+ spin-off series like he owns the galaxy ...

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

Astrotourism is traveling to places — sometimes remote locales — where it's possible to see celestial events such as stars, ...

Starquakes in stars from cluster M67 reveal hidden pauses that mark major internal changes. These pauses improve how we estimate star ages.

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

A spacecraft traveling at one-tenth of the speed of light could shave the trip down to a quick 40 years. Future engineers could use nuclear power to achieve that, says Scott Bailey, an engineer at ...