Some pass close enough to be noticed, like comet 3I/ATLAS now crossing our Solar System. Scientists believe these visitors may be more than curiosities. ‘ New research suggests they could play a ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals. These mineral ...

Smaller planets might be born when gas and dust is squeezed between larger worlds like the filling in a cosmic sandwich. The newly suggested process — dubbed "sandwiched planet formation" — would ...

Netflix released a new behind-the-scenes video for their recently released nature documentary Life on Our Planet, showcasing how the team behind the series created one of its more memorable scenes.

Astronomers have spotted six rogue worlds, or cosmic objects that don't orbit stars, using the James Webb Space Telescope. The celestial bodies are slightly bigger than Jupiter, and the observations ...

Of the more than 6,000 known exoplanets in the Milky Way, so-called Sub-Neptunes are the most common. They are smaller than Neptune and more massive than Earth and believed to have rocky interiors ...

Of the many different kinds of stars, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, usually slightly larger and older than our own sun, are known producers of interstellar dust. Dusty AGBs are particularly ...

"Sandwiched planet formation" may arise as the result of gas and dust being squeezed between large planets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...