“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 kilometers) of the ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ...

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

Find the daily horoscope for each zodiac sign, below. You may be more sensitive than usual, which will strike you as ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

It has been suggested that the most likely planet in our solar system for humans to try to terra-form (make Earth-like) is ...

Scientists have detected planet-forming pebbles around two young stars, providing insight into the birth of solar systems ...

Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Uranus enters Gemini for the first time since World War II. Sobering, right? Especially considering the current waves of ...