The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...