Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds of giant planets, bypassing a hurdle that theoretical models have ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) caught the two jets slamming into the interstellar medium around them, forming the ...

Stars form in the universe from massive clouds of gas. European Southern Observatory, CC BY-SA For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars ...

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...

NGC 3603-A1 is a pair of giant stars locked in a rapid 3.8-day orbit. Their dynamic relationship provides clues to how ...

New studies suggest that the first stars formed after the Big Bang may not have been as uniformly massive as previously believed.

Astronomers have gained insights into star formation by capturing the first spatially resolved detection of protostellar ...

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

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.