The Messier 82 (M82) galaxy is undergoing a violent star formation process, with a star production rate ten times that of the Milky Way. Detailed images captured by the Hubble Telescope reveal massive ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...

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

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

A study of the "failed star" brown dwarf known as "The Accident," conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope, may reveal a ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

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

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...

Astronomers have gained insights into star formation by capturing the first spatially resolved detection of protostellar ...

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