The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

As Carl Sagan famously said, “we are made of star stuff.” Our scientists investigate the mechanisms that lead to star and planet formation, and how these affect the extent of habitable real estate in ...

The Solar System was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud called a nebula, mainly made up of hydrogen gas and dust. The nebula collapsed under its own gravity and, as it did ...

RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently made observations about galaxy clusters that will help shape our ...

A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 ...

For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.