The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying ...

As best the origins of Earth are understood, we're all just a bunch of stardust, and new observations from the JWST lend credence to that theory.

(CNN) — New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed surprising pairs of planet-like objects in the Orion Nebula that have never been detected before. The Orion Nebula, a glowing cloud ...

This spectacular image of the Orion Nebula star-formation region was obtained from multiple exposures using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. ESO/H. Drass et al. To ...

A new image of a proplyd with a comet-like appearance has deepened the mystery of these radiation-proof planetary nurseries. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NGC 2024, or the Flame Nebula, is a large star-forming region that makes up part of the Orion constellation and resides roughly 1,400 light-years away from Earth. Besides the Flame Nebula, the Orion ...

Jupiter's influence on our Solar System dates back to a time when Earth was still just a cloud of dust and gas. Long before ...

The Ring Nebula (M57) was first discovered in the winter of 1779. But by whom? Some claim it was French astronomer Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, while others insist it was Charles Messier. However, ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...