A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...

Surprised astronomers said Thursday they have discovered a star with planets in a bizarre order that defies scientific ...

The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...

Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

Astronomers surveying the outer solar system have revealed that a rare object far beyond Neptune is moving in sync with the eighth planet in an unexpected way. Called 2020 VN40 and first discovered in ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...

NASA researchers show that artificial intelligence can anticipate solar flare buildups by tracking subtle changes across the Sun’s surface.

'LHS 1903 breaks this thinking.' ...