This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, `Oumuamua. Observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and others show that the object is mo ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity ...

Launched in 2021 after more than two decades of development, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most powerful and advanced observatory ever created. Designed to peer deeper into space than ...

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

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

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