Astronomers using a cutting-edge adaptive optics instrument, MagAO-X, have captured unprecedented images of young planets orbiting the star PDS 70. These "baby planets" are surrounded by dust rings ...

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

The red planet While we don’t have images of many of the planets in the solar system since they’re too far away, we do have a selection of images of Mars, including this beauty that reveals ...

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

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

The Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) has provided some of the clearest images ever taken of planets forming around a ...

Josh Dury / SWNS “I managed to capture a panorama image of the seven planets, AKA – the planetary parade,” Dury told SWNS. “It is made of nine images, revealing Saturn, Mercury and Neptune.

"We are ecstatic to have W-2 back on our home planet safely and are proud to support significant reentry research for our ...

An advanced imaging system developed at the University of Arizona boasts a shape-shifting mirror that delivers observing ...

Getty Images The different orbital speeds of the planets in our Solar System means several of them can occasionally line up in the same part of the sky at the same time (Credit: Getty Images ...