Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into ...

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive ...

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a groundbreaking feat by definitively detecting crystalline ice water in the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline water ice exists in the debris disk surrounding HD 181327, a ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

The study's authors found that certain orientations of twin star systems may provide critical information about planet formation, while also being easier for astronomers to discover planets within ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explores how binary star systems—two stars born together ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...