“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

A planet more than 100 light years away from Earth could be "teeming with alien life" after the "strongest ever signs of extraterrestrial life" were detected in the universe ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier stages of the protoplanetary disc,” Melissa explains. “Now, for the first time, ...

Californians could soon be able to see another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching on a Starlink mission. Where are some spots ...

Arizonans could soon be able to see another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from California. Where are some spots to catch ...

Baba Vanga, from Bulgarua and the Living Nostradmus, from Brazil, have both accurately predicted major world events between them such as the pandemic and the death of Princess Diana.

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

For the first time ever, scientists have captured the process of planets forming in their earliest stages. The ground-breaking photos were captured by the ALMA telescope in Chile and NASA's James Webb ...