(CN) — A newborn star deep inside a cloud of gas and dust appears to be “sneezing,” sending out bursts of energy that may ...

The formation of stars is intricately linked to the complex structure and dynamics of molecular clouds—vast, cold, and dense regions in the interstellar medium that primarily consist of molecular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The James Webb Space Telescope has made yet another stunning discovery to round out three years of space exploration. This time, ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered the hidden mysteries of the W51 star-forming region, giving astronomers an ...

“Three years into its mission, Webb continues to deliver on its design – revealing previously hidden aspects of the universe, from the star formation process to some of the earliest galaxies,” said ...

Starting from the upper left and moving clockwise from large to small scales: upper left —"spiral-like" system; upper right — "bar-like" structure; lower right — rotating infalling envelope; lower ...

July 10 (UPI) --NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, the ...

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it's actually full of new life. Lupus 3 is a star-forming cloud about 500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. White ...

Artist’s conception of the gas giant planet TOI-5205 b orbiting a small, cool red dwarf star. Image courtesy of Katherine Cain, Carnegie Science. Scientists have discovered that a highly unusual a ...