Launched in 2021 after more than two decades of development, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful and advanced observatory ever created. Designed to peer deeper into space than ...

For the first time, astronomers have successfully observed the earliest stages of planet formation around a star outside our ...

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"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Astronomers have spotted the birth of a new solar system for the very first time ever. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the ...

As is well known, stars are born when cold, dense regions of interstellar gas and dust collapse under their own gravity. This ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

For the first time ever, scientists have captured the process of planets forming in their earliest stages. The ground-breaking photos were captured by the ALMA telescope in Chile and NASA's James Webb ...

Jupiter's auroras were captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ricardo Hueso (UPV), Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Thierry Fouchet ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.