The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

James Webb Space Telescope reveals a giant hand stretches across the cosmos within the Eagle Nebula, showing unprecedented ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a breathtaking cosmic landscape that looks more like a scene from fantasy than reality. What appears to be a glowing mountain peak shrouded in mist is ...

When you point a telescope at the sky, you’re bound to encounter an amazing array of phenomena – from warped galaxies and quirky stars to vast clouds of gas stretching hundreds of light-years. But ...

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...

Even astronomers who study peculiar outer space objects have their favorites. Here are some interstellar bodies that have won ...

A young rogue planet 620 light-years from Earth has baffled scientists as it puts on a record-breaking 'growth spurt'.

Anthony Wood joined Space.com in April 2025 after contributing articles to outlets including IGN, New Atlas and Gizmodo. He ...

From the huge smoke plume seen from the LA wildfires to a new sweeping view of Earth, these space images will give you a new ...

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will reveal ...

This massive star-forming cloud is working surprisingly fast. A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have uncovered a new way these cosmic monsters unleash their power.