The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

The first-ever detection of heavy water in a planet-forming disk around a young star offers evidence that the water predates ...

If "chaos is a ladder," then brilliant stars forming from discordant gas and dust are the ultimate example of that. The James Webb telescope has imaged one of the more dramatic stellar nurseries in ...

The Pismis 2 star cluster sits within a huge star-forming region 5,500 light-years away. It's a scene that could evoke popular fantasy stories, with sparkling stars shining above misty mountaintops, ...

When you point a telescope at the sky, you’re bound to encounter an amazing array of phenomena – from warped galaxies and quirky stars to vast clouds of gas stretching hundreds of light-years. But ...