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 ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

Espinoza is a leader in the new massive James Webb Space Telescope study of rocky worlds, specifically to find out if planets around red dwarfs could have air. The campaign, first reported by Mashable ...

Han’s paper reveals how the nebula’s dust cools, links the background dust to the foreground stars, and suggests the stars are farther away from Earth than we thought. This implies they are ...

Astronomers believe they have captured an image of a planet in the act of forming, something that has never before been ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is one of the most powerful ground-based astronomical tools on the planet. Despite its name ...

Scientist studying a star over 440 light-years away have spotted a planet creating intricate patterns in the star's ...

The spiral galaxy M83 is captured face-on, providing a clear view of its full structure. Chandra's X-ray data reveals ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Catching that moment in another star system would show astronomers exactly how planet formation begins — but no one had seen ...

Television news anchors were caught smack in the middle of their 9 pm debates when Dhankhar publicly announced his ...