The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the earliest ever signs of planets being born around a star.

Astronomers using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a spectacular cosmic object they're calling the "Infinity Galaxy." The site of an epic head-on collision between two ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

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

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 ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...