Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope uncovers a ‘star factory’ inside the Flame Nebula, offering new insights into star formation and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, visible in the mid-infrared band. Results of the new observations, published ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula ...

Their existence raises fundamental questions about their formation and their place in the Universe. JuMBOs, pairs of planetary-mass objects, raise questions. Their binary nature and abundance in ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared ... unless they were formed as planets and then ejected out of a planetary system." The faintness of brown dwarfs makes them ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects, celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size, come into existence? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...