An international planet hunt spearheaded by Monash University researchers has discovered evidence of five new baby planets, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a groundbreaking feat by definitively detecting crystalline ice water in the ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline water ice exists in the debris disk surrounding HD 181327, a ...

The study's authors found that certain orientations of twin star systems may provide critical information about planet formation, while also being easier for astronomers to discover planets within ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking observation of methane clouds in Titan's northern hemisphere, a ...

Stars don’t just form planets—they may also re-supply their disks with gas, reshaping how and where planets emerge.

Astronomers have long suspected the presence of frozen water, ever since in 2008 data from Nasa's retired Spitzer Space ...

Astronomers have identified a vast population of potential protoplanetary disks within the turbulent central molecular zone ...

Webb’s instruments captured detailed spectral data revealing both the presence and distribution of ice particles across the ...

Astronomers sing the James Webb Space Telescope have made an unequivocal detection of frozen water in another star system for ...