"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has performed deep and high spectral ...

Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape The James Webb Space Telescope ...

New data from JWST suggests our Universe may be hidden within a massive Black Hole.

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse inside HOPS-315, a young star that appears to sit at the center of a nascent version of our own solar system.

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband network got a literal boost from SpaceX Wednesday as a Falcon 9 rocket put several Kuiper ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” lead author Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Image credit ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star, revealing a ...