The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare glimpse at the gaseous "shrouds" that surround dying stars before they go ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

Travel to James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam and MIRI instrument views of protostar L1527. The protostar is about 100,000 ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

Humans might not know of any intelligent beings beyond Earth, but if they exist, they might already know about us. New ...

The University of Manchester-led study proposes potential extraterrestrials could have spotted Earth's airports ...

Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet by the James Webb Space Telescope sparks fresh curiosity across science ...

Discover 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet with a reddish hue, rich in water ice, and possibly predating the solar system.

Scientists determine if an object is interstellar by computing its trajectory and observing its speed, as demonstrated with the recently discovered 3I/Atlas.