That's exactly what was seen in a recent image from NASA's and the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope, as ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured striking new images of stars forming inside the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, ...

San Francisco, CA, November 15, 2006 — ProtoStar Ltd., a Bermuda corporation with principal U.S. operations in San Francisco, moved a step closer to its Asian satellite service by successfully closing ...

The gas and dust clouds are in the Taurus star-forming region and are offering a glimpse into the early days of young stars. By Laura Baisas Published Nov 17, 2022 10:00 AM EST Get the Popular Science ...

L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), is a molecular cloud that harbors a protostar. It resides about 460 light-years from Earth in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the birth of a new star. As dust and gas clump together and eventually collapses under the force of gravity, it becomes a protostar: the ...

A massive protostar, deeply nestled in its dust-filled stellar nursery, recently roared to life, shining nearly 100 times brighter than before. This outburst, apparently triggered by an avalanche of ...

NASA officials spoke at a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday morning about the status of the Webb Space Telescope, which has been capturing images of the universe near and far since early this ...

NASA scientists are seeing the beginnings of a new star within a spectacular hourglass, courtesy of an image captured by the James Webb Telescope. On Wednesday, NASA released details of ...

Planetary solar systems like our own don’t just pop into the universe fully formed — instead they evolve from a ring of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disk, which surrounds an early-stage star, ...

Twelve thousand light-years from Earth, a star is forming. At first, it had all the marks of an aging star on its way to death. But new evidence published in the Astrophysical Journal shows that the ...