Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

A star about 600 light-years away is giving astronomers a front-row view to the environments in which rocky planets like Earth form around the most abundant stars in the universe. Called ISO-ChaI 147, ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that when our solar system formed, a ...

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Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...

A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.

Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started its journey into space, the first scientific publication using data from CHEOPS has been issued. CHEOPS is the first ESA mission dedicated to ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed 20-year-old Hubble observations that could finally explain how ancient stars can host massive planets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The coldest and densest molecular gas clouds in the interstellar medium can have temperatures of 10 K (-505 °F/-263 °C), ...

Conditions in the early universe might have enabled rocky planets with water to form much earlier than anticipated, potentially allowing life to begin sooner too. Astrophysicists studying the early ...

In 2011, astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets. In 2011, astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets. In fact, these ...