The concept of the Big Bang marks the beginning of our observable universe, which began expanding approximately 13.8 billion ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Launched in 2021 after more than two decades of development, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful and advanced observatory ever created. Designed to peer deeper into space than ...

Find out how these incredible astrophysical objects have influenced the formation and evolution of galaxies, and more.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system.

Astronomers have captured the first direct signs of planet formation around the young star HOPS-315, offering a glimpse into ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

Astronomers have discovered the ‘Infinity’ galaxy — two merging galaxies forming a supermassive black hole — possibly the ...

"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.

Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...