It's believed to account for roughly 85% of the universe's mass, yet no telescope or sensor on Earth has been able to track ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Bring the Moon and planets into closer view, spot stunning star clusters and observe distant galaxies and nebulas with your own eyes — you can even photograph your subject with a smart telescope.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

"One explanation is that the Universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, ...

"I was astonished by the unexpected results because they opened a new view on the first phases of galaxy evolution." ...

Two different teams of astronomers detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, hinting at how these galaxies formed in the early Universe.

When scientists look to the skies for clues about life's origins, water is one of the first things they seek. Life, as it's ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...