"Astronomers are eager to understand how stars form, and our discovery provides a clue to star formation processes."

New research explores the links between atmospheric oxygen and detecting alien technology on distant planets.

Scientists have discovered that, even in "pristine" solar systems, planets exhibit a bit of a tilt.

Scientists have discovered 14 transient objects in a galaxy they've dubbed the "Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster."

Venus may have had plate tectonics billions of years ago, a finding that opens the door for the possibility of early life on the planet.

A newly discovered jet stream in Jupiter's atmosphere creates wind shears that far exceed any seen on Earth.

"We are finding this human-made material in what we consider a pristine area of the atmosphere," the stratosphere.

The first views of 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples collected in space and recently brought reveal water and high-carbon content.

After traveling billions of miles, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission has landed a capsule with rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert.

The rate at which large cosmic structures grow is slower than Einstein's Theory of General Relativity predicts, report researchers.