Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

The Michigan Science Center will close its planetarium after Sunday to launch $4.5 million in capital upgrades and new programs aimed at inspiring curiosity in aviation, aerospace and deep space.

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

The newly released images from a December flyby are so detailed that scientists can see explosions and the flow of solar winds.

Is life beyond Earth possible? New research into Saturn’s moon Titan suggests it just might be. Scientists have discovered that key precursors for life, known as protocells, could be forming naturally ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the earliest ever signs of planets being born around a star.

Now the Spanish government has pitched to bring the giant facility to La Palma, in Spain’s Canary Islands — and backed up the effort with a pledge to contribute €400 million (US$470 million).