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 ...

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 ...

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 fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, ...

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

NGC 7635, also called the Bubble Nebula, is an emission nebula lit from within by the hot, young star SAO 20575.

A team of astronomers discovered that planet-forming materials can survive and persist even in some of the most extreme ...

NASA has released many clear images of different regions in the universe taken by the world's largest telescope, James Webb.

The Hubble Space Telescope image of the Tarantula Nebula's outskirts shows colorful stars, billowing gas clouds, and thick ...

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 ...