As the month wears on, Jupiter and Venus will move apart from each other. One more date to keep in mind will be Aug. 20. Although Venus and Jupiter will now be eight degrees apart, the slender ...

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing ...

This splash of paint on the canvas of space is the planetary nebula NGC 6072, the dying embers of a ruined star that has reached the end of its sun-like life. Cocooned inside the nebula, within its ...

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"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a distant sun-like star.

Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted ...

This paper provides concrete evidence that the expanding and accelerating Universe mathematically expressed by dark energy is ...