How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

Orion Nebula (Mike Lynch) If your optics are powerful ... The trouble, though, is that these potential planets may not come into being. Stellar winds gusting over 5 million mph are constantly ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best must-see attractions ... this part of the sky as “Orion and his gang.” There are even planets in the mix this year. Jupiter is very bright and perched ...

Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

Multiple planets are going to appear together in the sky. Some astronomy fans are calling it a “planet parade.” There won’t ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...