Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University led researchers in discovering six rogue worlds that may have formed similar to how ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope ... "For decades, astronomers suspected that, soon after a star coalesces within a nebula, planets are born within a disk of gas and dust surrounding the ...

These stellar objects blur the lines between planet and star–to better ... using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently spotted six new rogue worlds in a young nebula.

In the Helix Nebula, the star ejects hot gas into space, and that gas cools and falls ... brown dwarfs (or "failed stars"), former stars and planets. If the white dwarf at the center did eat ...

Most scientists say a star can never become a planet ... leaving behind a comet-like tail Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope's view of the Flame Nebula is a 'quantum leap' forward ...

Now, data from two X-ray telescopes, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space ... first case of a planet seen to be destroyed by the central star in a planetary nebula." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a star engulfing a ... A so-called "planetary nebula" — a confusing misnomer because stars cause them, not planets — is a phenomenon made from ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's ...

The decades-long mystery of a never-ending explosion of X-rays around the remains of a dead star ... of the nebula taken by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory in 1999 and the European Space ...

The Orion Nebula, top, seen from La Hayuela ... what we thought was possible” for star and planet formation. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have started to reveal the Orion ...

We may now know where they’re coming from – the death throes of a planet being torn to shreds and raining down on the star. The Helix Nebula is an eye-catching sight in the sky – and not ...