If "chaos is a ladder," then brilliant stars forming from discordant gas and dust are the ultimate example of that. The James ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...

Astronomers believe that the stars in galaxy MACS1149-JD1 started to form about 200 million years after the big bang. A ...

Hubble reveals star formation secrets in galaxy NGC 2835 using H-alpha detection to map stellar nurseries with surgical ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world.

Here's how a star beyond Earth's sun could offer a 'picture of the baby solar system' The finding marks a major milestone in the study of planetary formation and opens a window into the past of ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, researchers detected hot ...

Researchers have spotted a Jupiter-like gas giant forming in the disk around a young sun — earlier in the star's lifetime ...

The dragon's fat shape holds clues about how stars form -- and how the process stops. Orion's Nebula is an enormous cloud of gas and dust about 1,300 light-years from Earth.

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...

Astronomers have seen a lot of stars explode, but one unusual stellar death is forcing them to rethink what they thought they ...