High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

With images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring ...

Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...