“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

A planet more than 100 light years away from Earth could be "teeming with alien life" after the "strongest ever signs of extraterrestrial life" were detected in the universe ...

In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier stages of the protoplanetary disc,” Melissa explains. “Now, for the first time, ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system.

Though Baba Vanga, the blind Bulgarian oracle, died back in 1996, she made a few major predictions for the future, and ...

Californians could soon be able to see another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching on a Starlink mission. Where are some spots ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Using the ALMA telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system for the ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...