While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

The planetary parade in February 2025 will see five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and ...

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

On Feb. 24, from west to east, you can see Mercury, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars, all spanning 117.5°, ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...

Astronomers have finally unlocked a crucial piece of the planet formation puzzle by detecting the magnetic fingerprint of a young star’s protoplanetary disk. Using ALMA, researchers observed how dust ...

This month, six planets in the solar system — Mars ... the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners and lectures on astronomy and the natural world. Jamie regularly writes for Space.com ...

Davis Astronomy Club invites everyone on the evening of Saturday, Jan. 25, for a free viewing of the rare alignment of six ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...