Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Some 2,600 light-years from our own Solar System dwells one of the most peculiar planetary systems in the entire galaxy ... "Super puff planets are fairly rare, and when they do occur, they ...

Atoms forged in stars take a gigantic meandering path before they become incorporated into a future generation of stars and ...

Glimpses of a young galaxy forming in a way so similar to our own are unparalleled, Mowla says. The JWST images show a Milky Way-like galaxy in the early stages of its assembly in a universe that ...

James Webb telescope uncovers massive 'grand design' spiral galaxy ... planet formation theory —James Webb telescope spies stunning 'Firefly Sparkle' galaxy — a baby clone of the Milky Way ...

And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... (the telescope's) infrared instruments detect radiation from planets, ...

It’s like a big, invisible halo of gas that can stretch for hundreds of thousands of light-years. In 2011, findings from the ...