The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled ...

Webb data explains how heat-formed crystal minerals end up in icy comets by tracking their journey around a young, actively forming star.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have, for the first time, discovered the moment when planets started to form around a sun-like baby star, scientists ...

A young, still-forming star has been caught in the act of creating heat-born crystals and hurling them far into the cold ...

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

This spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows a star cocooned within a massive disk of gas and dust. It's a protoplanetary disk — a ring of dense gas and dust surrounding ...

A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has detected methanol isotopes around a nearby star, which could help explain why the ingredients for life are present on Earth. When you purchase ...

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