Astronomy enthusiasts and even the general public can enjoy watching Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, as it ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging ...

A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

For a telescope that spends much of its time listening to faint spectra, the James Webb Space Telescope has also learned how ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This week’s “planet parade” peaks on Wednesday, Aug. 20, as ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...

Fresh off the excitement of the Perseids meteor shower is a chance to see six planets lined up in the sky at once. These events, colloquially known as planet parades, occur occasionally with the most ...