In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

Planetary systems begin in chaos. In their primitive form, many rocky and icy objects are careening through space, smashing ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

The level of detail we’re seeing is rare in protoplanetary disk imaging,” commented Kristina Monsch from the Center for ...

An ISS astronaut captured a rare lunar halo above the Indian Ocean, showing a thin glowing arc above Earth's blue edge.

According to the ESA, the Webb Telescope has allowed scientists to study the dust grains inside discs like this, which helps ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...