In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

To print these free coloring sheets, just click on any image of the planets in this post and it will take you to a free ...

That success inspired Soummer and his colleagues to scrutinize archived NICMOS images of 400 additional stars. “Once we knew we could find planets that were already known,” he says, “we knew ...

New, clear images of the Orion nebula have been released - and scientists say they've found dozens of rogue planets floating in pairs with no star nearby. There is no explanation for how they ...

Astronomers have captured the sharpest, most detailed images yet of young solar systems where planets are just beginning to take shape. Exquisite snapshots released on April 28 provide a rare ...

Scientists controlling the U.S. space agency’s MESSENGER space probe have released the first photographs of Mercury taken by the robotic craft since it began orbiting the solar system's ...

The other set of images, taken by a team using telescopes in Hawaii, shows three giant planets orbiting a star named HR8799 in the constellation Pegasus, about 130 light-years away from the Earth.

In infrared images taken by two ground-based telescopes in Hawaii, Marois and his colleagues discovered three planets orbiting the star HR 8799, our relatively nearby neighbor at 25 million light ...

Less than three months after the first footage from Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets earned a standing ovation at San Diego Comic-Con, the space adventure is getting ...

On July 12 NASA revealed stunning first images taken by its James Webb Space Telescope. For scientists, the release of these images will lead to a better understanding of the history and formation ...