Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

New research tracks young planets around a nearby star, showing how large, gas-rich worlds shrink over time to become the most common planets in the galaxy ...

When you find 1,900 previously unknown space rocks within seven nights of starting operations, there are bound to be some ...

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Somewhere between the stars, far from any sun, a planet is moving quietly through space. There is no orbit to trace and no ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

Lying In The Gutters for the 7th of January topped in The Daily LITG for the 8th of January 2026. The snake has eaten its own ...

Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, ​​the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...

Over its planned two-year mission, the $488 million telescope will scan the entire night sky every six months and collect ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a ...