Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring around a young star.

See the crescent moon shine with Mars at sunset on Sept. 24. The crescent moon shines close to Mars above the western horizon at sunset on Sept. 24, but you'll need to be quick to spot the red planet ...

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For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

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The Webb telescope detected interstellar dust from a galaxy that was 114,000 light-years from the galactic core, defying extreme conditions.

The idea of spending my evenings along the river peering into the heavens sounded fun, so I added a Hestia to my pack. Here’s how it went.

It took a new DNA technique and a detective’s ruse in a diner to reveal Joseph Martinez as the alleged killer of 13-year-old Minerliz Soriano.

The methane gas may constitute a rarefied atmosphere, or it may come from erupting plumes on Makemake’s surface.

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the remains of a frozen, Pluto-like world being devoured by a distant white dwarf star.

The month is packed with skywatching highlights—including two galaxies visible to the naked eye and a rare glimpse of the innermost planet.