Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects, celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size, come into existence? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University ...

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...

Scientists have developed organic semiconductors that produce circularly polarized light and potentially improve current ...

In a new call for proposals, DARPA envisions living materials that could self-assemble into antennas, nets to capture debris, ...

Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...

In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "cometary knots" on the Helix Nebula show blue-green heads caused by excitation of their molecular material from shocks or ultraviolet radiation.

A stunning new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing unprecedented insights into the processes of star formation deep in the cosmos. The region, known as Lynds 483, or L483 for ...

Known as planet-forming disks, they are believed to be a short-lived feature around most, if not all, young stars, providing the raw materials for planets to form. Most of these planetary ...