If you’re going to set a sci-fi movie on an alien planet, it’s a nice bonus if that planet actually exists. Or, at least, is ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

Astronomers have captured the sharpest-ever images of infant planets forming around a distant star, revealing unexpected ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

The results of Hera's fly-by could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets ...

Using the Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) instrument, astronomers captured detailed images of young planets orbiting the star PDS 70, revealing compact dust rings that may form moons.

With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...