The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

Scientists now think that a mysterious object massive enough to have gravitational interactions with the Solar System’s disk ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

The United States Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring stellar images beamed back to Earth by the James Webb ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new study reveals a surprising ...