Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

Submissions already include some stunning wildlife photography, including a sleepy lion cub on a dirt road, a mountain goat ...

The station’s account on social media platform X lit up with the pictures, showing different parts of the planet, from the ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

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The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, researchers said.

Astronomers have taken unprecedented images of baby planets in a distant star system. The planets are still surrounded by rings of gas and dust from which moons appear to be taking shape.

Developing sharper images of protoplanets and the dust around them is key to understanding how planets and their moons form, ...