Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, ​​the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...

When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

A rare triple conjunction of Venus, Mars and Mercury is happening on the opposite side of the solar system to where Earth is, ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if Mars weren't there?" ...

From the deck of a ship or the window of a plane, it feels obvious that “down” points toward Earth and “up” points toward the ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...