Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

As telescope tech advances and exoplanet counts soar past 7,000, scientists believe the evidence for alien life could emerge within the decade. This feature unpacks the latest findings, what we’re ...

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

The celestial event will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for many but the date has varied among internet users ...

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, researchers detected hot ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

Cosmologists at Durham University in England made the discovery using a new technique that combines the highest-resolution ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...