A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

Astronomers have witnessed a planet causing eruptions on its parent star. The discovery, published in Nature, could reshape ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Rocket Lab Corporation to launch a dedicated Electron mission, marking the first time the company will deploy satellites for ESA’s next-generation ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part ...

Humanity’s need to track the Moon's changing phases and motions is ancient. Mammoth hunters used the Moon as a timekeeper, carving crescent-shaped notches into bone and tusk. Sumerian astronomers ...

Galileo's graveyard orbits are located at least 300 km above the active constellation and are designed to remain stable for a very long time.

It orbits near the inner edge of the asteroid belt. The Galileo spacecraft had been travelling through the asteroid belt for about two months before it reached Gaspra.