HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

Star formation in the early universe was a vigorous process that created gigantic stars. Called Population III stars, these giants were massive, extremely luminous stars that lived short lives, many ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

SEE ALSO: Astronomers just witnessed a whole galaxy 'turn on the lights' in real-time The James Webb Space Telescope zeroed in on dwarf galaxy Leo P to study its star-formation history.

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where planets formed in the early universe.

Neutron star "mountains" would be much more massive than any on Earth—so massive that gravity just from these mountains could produce small oscillations, or ripples, in the fabric of space and time.

Private citizens and companies may one day begin to permanently settle outer space and celestial bodies. But if we don't ...