Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has triggered fevered speculation after the James Webb Space Telescope detected an "out of order" burst of methane in its coma, puzzling even seasoned astronomers. While a ...

The discovery of a meteorite older than Earth in the UK is a chance to learn about the early solar system. The rock seems to have come from the protoplanetary disk that birthed the planets. The young ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured young stars in Lupus 3, a star-forming cloud 500 light-years away, showing T Tauri stars and gas structures in the Scorpius constellation.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

Austin (KXAN) — A tiny baby planet is making waves in the science community. Named WISPIT 2b, the growing planet is the first planet of its kind to be basically photographed growing inside its star’s ...

January is Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month, and experts say it is a time to support those thinking about or seeking help for their substance use. KXAN's Will DuPree and Avery Travis sit down ...

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, A. Boley, A. Kritsuk and M. Norman Vermont Gov. Scott calls on ...

In 2015, a team of researchers from the University of Arizona caught imagery of a planet in the early stages of its formation. To date, scientists have catalogued 5,989 exoplanets, but most of them ...