The James Webb Space Telescope's look at the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The image showcase a "small star-forming region" ...

Jupiter's auroras were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, ...

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

A planet more than 100 light years away from Earth could be "teeming with alien life" after the "strongest ever signs of ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

New photos, including a striking technicolor timelapse, show off the newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it ...

As is well known, stars are born when cold, dense regions of interstellar gas and dust collapse under their own gravity. This ...