Discover the immense power and influence of Jupiter's gravity on our solar system and the role it plays in shaping our ...

All the planets orbit in roughly the same plane because they formed from a single rotating disk of gas and dust — the solar nebula — that flattened as it spun around the young Sun. The shared origin ...

The Helix Nebula is approximately 694 light-years away from the Solar System. Despite this seemingly immense distance, it ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

The new spectrograph on Chile's SOAR telescope captures Eta Carinae with unprecedented precision, revealing the secrets of ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Autumn has draped itself across the northern hemisphere, heralding the onset of longer, darker nights that serve as the ...

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

How well do you know the scary blue stallion who terrifies arrivals and departures at Denver International Airport?

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...