On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured imagery of dynamic star-forming region NCG 346 within the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC ...

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere and look up during July evenings, you'll see the brilliant star Vega shining overhead.

These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from Earth.

Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own ...

Scientists have long theorized that planets, including those in our solar system, form from interstellar dust and gas as it ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or planetesimals, must ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

A group of international researchers said on Wednesday they witnessed some of the earliest stages of a planet beyond the sun ...

Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse inside HOPS-315, a young star that appears to sit at the center of a nascent version of our own solar system.

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

Hidden in the ‘Infinity Galaxy,’ a black hole floats in space where none should exist, upending old ideas about black hole birth.