New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never seen before.

Researchers have also noted that dust formation is not uniform, with accumulations forming delicate clouds as vast as ... the formation of stars and planets, as well as the distribution of chemical ...

The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds ... that planets may be forming in even more places throughout the galaxy ...

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars. But these sparkling lights are just a tiny fraction of our cosmic ...

far from the galaxy before recycling it back into the star-forming regions where it originated, contributing to the formation of planets, moons, new stars, and other celestial bodies. The ...

This material is then dragged back into the galaxy by its gravitational influence. This large, circulating cloud of material, including hot gases enriched in oxygen, was found to be absent from ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Today’s 3 Brilliant Minutes is out of this world -- and out of this galaxy! A European Space Agency probe gives us new pictures of Mercury, the planet closest to the sun. Brad ...