NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ... that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and ...

A Rutgers University team discovered Eos, the closest large molecular cloud, using ultraviolet light. Lacking carbon monoxide, it was previously undetected. This discovery offers a unique ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

Astronomers didn’t even know sub-Neptunes existed until NASA’s Kepler mission uncovered them over the past decade. Although a ...

These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and observe a planetary nebula in the constellation Ursa Major the Great Bear. Amateur astronomers call it the Owl ...

A glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering a glimpse into the moon's hidden interior and violent past. Witness live views of Earth from the International Space Station as it ...

After failing to make it past Earth orbit on March 31, 1972, the remains of a Venus mission launched by the former Soviet Union circled our planet for years and was given the name Cosmos (or ...

NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...

The $400 million jumbo jet the Trump Administration has reportedly agreed to accept as a gift is nothing short of a luxury palace in the sky. The private 747 comes with a master bedroom, a guest ...