Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." ...

Webb's Near-Infrared Camera view shows at least two or three distinct outflows of gas — jets stretching in different ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted signs of solid minerals. These are known as silicon monoxide, beginning to cool and harden.

New research has revealed that mysterious ‘rogue planets’ could be assembling scaled-down planetary systems of their own.

Until now, astronomers have detected fully formed, massive, newborn planets or observed younger protoplanetary discs, but ...

"It confirms K2-18 b to be our best chance to study a potential habitable environment beyond the solar system at the present time." ...

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that may be habitable 35 light-years from Earth. Named L 98-59 f, it joins four ...

Espinoza is a leader in the new massive James Webb Space Telescope study of rocky worlds, specifically to find out if planets ...

What can carbon dioxide (CO₂) on Saturn’s moons teach scientists about their formation and evolution? This is what a recent ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the initial stages of a solar system's formation around a distant star, HOPS-315.

A new paper led by a York University professor and published today in Nature Astronomy introduces a simple theoretical ...