A full moon is slated for Sept. 7, but there are other celestial events occurring this month. More on viewing Saturn at its ...

Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) caught one of these protoplanetary disks and its young star in a edge-on view ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

Researchers have spotted a Jupiter-like gas giant forming in the disk around a young sun — earlier in the star's lifetime ...

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Researchers describe the newly discovered binary system as a cosmic oddball. Stars often reach the end of their lives and ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

The birth of young stars is shrouded in mystery because they tend to form at the centre of giant clouds of dust and hydrogen gas. Only light in the millimetre- and infrared-wavelength range can ...