The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but ...

U.S. military officials are sounding alarms over growing threats in space as Russia and China rapidly develop space weapons ...

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by dynamic interactions with its companion. An international team of researchers ...

Blue Origin plans to launch a space flight with a crew that includes the singer behind the 2010 hit "Firework." But we can ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 For decades, astronomers have probed the space around Barnard ... the existence of a single tiny, rocky planet orbiting the star. And now, another study has found ...

The collaboration — between The Nature Conservancy, Planet, and Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab — is designed to track the spread of wind and solar over time, so that planners can better ...

Until now, scientists have generally thought that planets orbiting ... which form when stars like the sun run out of fuel for nuclear fusion, shedding their outer layers as their cores collapse ...