Scientists have watched a solar system being born for the first ever time. Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...

When a meteor flashes across the night sky, it’s more than a beautiful streak of light. It’s a delivery from deep space—an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet ...

Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by the University of Rochester has detected gaps ringing the dusty disks around two very young stars, which suggests that gas-giant ...

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.

John Casani spent more than half a century turning speculative ideas about distant worlds into working spacecraft that could survive the trip. His quiet influence at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...