New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

In a cosmic first, McClure and her team stared deep into the gas disk around the baby star and detected solid specks ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about ...

Astronomers have captured the earliest moments of rocky planet formation around a young sun-like star, offering a ...

NASA said that the "very early" formation of every star is a "relatively fleeting event – just a few thousand to 10,000 years amid a multi-million-year process of star formation." ...

A new image taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows the formation of the ... L1527 is about 100,000 years old and considered a class 0 protostar — the earliest stage of star formation.

NASA issued a challenge to those with rocket design capabilities. The agency needs the public's help designing an ejection system in its SPEED project.

NGC 346, one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby galaxies, is full of mystery. Now, it is less mysterious with new findings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA says the black hole in dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 is responsible for the star formation. Black holes are known as “monsters of the universe,” capable of tearing stars apart and consuming ...

At 390 light-years away, the Rho Ophiuchi is the closest star-forming region to Earth and is 50 young stars, all of them similar in mass to the sun or smaller.

NASA has drawn comparison between a celestial formation and a holiday wreath, referring to the recently spotted star and dust cloud cluster as a "cosmic wreath." ...

The spiral galaxies UGC 05028 and UGC 05029, collectively known as Arp 300, are in the process of merging. This has fueled rapid star formation.