Astronomers are uncovering the earliest stages of planet formation with the help of technologies like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Recent findings from the Butterfly Nebula, 3,400 ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust called a solar nebula that swirled around, eventually collapsing under its own gravity into a rapidly rotating ...

The cosmos has always fascinated us, with its vast expanses and mysteries that are yet to be fully understood. The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting across a stretch of ...

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from Rochester Institute of ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of the Ring Nebula, also known as M57, which is a planetary nebula formed by the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The nebula is located ...

“These fragments may be the remains of once-larger clouds that have been shredded by the enormous energy being released by young and massive stars, a process dubbed feedback,” says Tony Wong, who led ...

Astronomers have seen the first direct evidence of the birth of a planet in the form of snowballing dust grains, helping to confirm the theoretical scenario for how Earth and the other planets formed ...

Earth has a continuous gas leak, but it’s nothing like what comes out of your car. These are the exhaust fumes of the Big Bang that escape from the planet’s core. Primordial gases were swirling around ...

Billions of years from now, as our Sun approaches the end of its life and helium nuclei begin to fuse in its core, it will bloat dramatically and turn into what’s known as a red giant star. After ...