The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a view of Lynds 483 (L483), an "actively forming star system," according to NASA.

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Scientists have discovered a massive molecular cloud close to the solar system. As big as 40 full moons as seen from Earth, the vast structure — which poses no threat — is composed primarily of ...

What stage of a star’s life do planets start forming? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a pair of researchers from the Southwest Research Institute ...