New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in the gas around the Sun that behaves like a tunnel carved through ...

Every planet in the solar system leans, some gently, some dramatically, and that tilt quietly shapes everything from our ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

A Carnegie-led team of astronomers detected the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet beyond our ...

The interstellar comet is on its way out of the solar system. Scientists studying it have observed its composition and ...

What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.