Researchers will mine data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will survey the same areas of the sky every ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades.

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier stages of the protoplanetary disc,” Melissa explains. “Now, for the first time, ...

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

International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the Sun.