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

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

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

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

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

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

This results in a composition that is “unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent.” “These new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” Kristina Monsch, ...

Nestled 1,000 light-years from Earth, a massive, chaotic disk is offering scientists a unique glimpse into the birthplace of ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the biggest planet-forming disk ever discovered. The finding reveals violent chaos ...

By tracking tiny stellar wobbles, astronomers have detected planets forming around young stars for the first time.