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 ...

Baba Vanga and Living Nostradamus really are the Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the world of terrifying predictions ...

"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 ...

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 ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

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.

Researchers will mine data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will survey the same areas of the sky every ...

The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades.