Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, researchers detected hot ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...

NASA released a new picture from the James Webb Space Telescope, showing a star being born. The protostar is relatively young, at about 100,000 years of age.

Researchers estimate that this protostar is around 100,000 years old, making it a baby by stellar standards. For comparison, our sun is around 4.6 billion years old and is expected to live to ...

This story began around 100,000 years ago, when two adolescent protostars (very young stars) grew increasingly angsty about being stuck in their stellar nursery.

L1527, a molecular cloud that contains a star being born, has an hourglass appearance with vibrant colors throughout. Image provided by NASA. NASA ...

Stars are born in clusters. Some stay together as binaries, some drift apart and some are violently thrown out of the family. The Pleiades are young clustered blue stars being born from dust and gas.

New Hubble Pic Shows a Chaotic Cauldron of Stars Being Born. ... These areas are also known as “star cradles” since the region contains plenty of cosmic dust and ionized hydrogen for stars to ...