Astronomers have discovered an ancient, ice-rich interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS, which could transform our understanding of how comets form and evolve across the galaxy. Detected by the ...

The European Southern Observatory said the discovery as "the first clear detection of a baby planet in a disc with multiple rings" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She ...

At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a ...

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disc of dust and gas with multiple rings. The ground-breaking discovery was made using European Southern ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand-new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter. What's more, the find represents the first clear detection of ...

Space exploration consistently reveals phenomena that challenge our understanding of the cosmos, from the behavior of distant objects to the composition of alien worlds that defy terrestrial ...