Named because their color and size made them resemble planets ... a star-forming region within the Eagle Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Compare that to ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we observe the universe ... early stages of star ...

During its long journey, it has passed through different parts of the galaxy. Research shows that the Solar System passed through the Orion star-forming complex about ... that is relevant to this ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

The radiation probably originates from the scorching-hot wreckage left behind by a giant planet’s annihilation ... fall onto the nebula’s white dwarf star, getting frazzled and glowing ...

"If confirmed, this would be the first case of a planet seen to be destroyed by the central star in a planetary nebula." This finding isn't only a grizzly curiosity. It is also an important way ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of ...

A surprising observation from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a vestige of a galaxy that peeked through the early universe’s dense fog just 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could be created when young star systems ... in the Orion nebula. With masses lower than ...

By way of comparison, Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. The universe is thought ... light that Webb detected in this galaxy may have come from vigorous star formation in the galaxy's nucleus ...