Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...

Mysterious planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could be created when young star systems clash. They aren't planets or stars, but are in a cosmic class of their own.

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

Learn how different types of stars form, live, explode, and then form again.

About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

For over two decades, astronomers have been perplexed by the existence of planetary-mass objects, or PMOs, celestial bodies ...

You can see the planetary parade almost every night this week with the best happening on the last day of the month.

Deep in space, mysterious wanderers roam freely — of planetary masses yet not hosted by stars. These celestial nomads, called ...

Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability, a new study pushes back.