NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System
NASA · 15 Jul 2026
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hiding within one of the most intensely studied planetary systems in our Milky Way galaxy....
Debris disc oddities point to hidden outer planets
SpaceDaily · 13 Feb 2026
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2026 Astronomers have obtained some of the most detailed images yet of debris discs around fully formed, so called teenage planetary systems, and say the irregular structures they see could r...
ALMA survey maps turbulent youth of distant planetary systems
SpaceDaily · 21 Jan 2026
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Astronomers have assembled the most detailed view so far of planetary systems in a long elusive stage between their birth and maturity, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter...
The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
SpaceDaily · 19 Dec 2025
Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Dec 19, 2025 Fusion is the cosmic process that powers stars, shapes galaxies, and enables the chemical diversity needed for life. From the earliest stars to modern planetary systems, fusion conver...
Gaia finds hints of planets in baby star systems
ESA · 15 Dec 2025
Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own Solar System form? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope, we're getting a unique peek behind the cosmic curtain into these dusty environments.
SwRI opens NOUR lab to track chemical pathways from nebulae to planetary systems
SpaceDaily · 3 Dec 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has established the Nebular Origins of the Universe Research (NOUR) Laboratory to investigate how the chemistry of interstellar material leads to the...
Find Exoasteroids and Peek into the Future
NASA · 23 Sep 2024
What will remain of our solar system a few billion years from now? We’re launching the Exoasteroids project to gather some clues. Join this new citizen science project, and help search for variable white dwarfs – bizarre...
Webb finds surprising ingredients around young star
ESA · 6 Jun 2024
An international team of astronomers have used the NASA/ESA/Webb James Webb Space Telescope to study the disc around a young and very low-mass star. The results reveal the richest hydrocarbon chemistry seen to date in a...
Rocket Lab to acquire Planetary Systems Corp.
SpaceNews · 16 Nov 2021
Rocket Lab announced Nov. 15 that it is acquiring Planetary Systems Corporation (PSC), a manufacturer of satellite separation systems, in the second such deal by Rocket Lab in as many months.