The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.
Some 3,000 light years away, shimmering layers of gas formed an almost perfect sphere around the faintly glowing, burned-out core of a dead star. The result looks like a giant crystal ball floating in ...
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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 ...
Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...
The observations have uncovered 40 pairs of free-floating gas giants. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb Space ...
A rare cosmic visitor, 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object, was discovered in July 2025. This object, on a ...
"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...