CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail -- the closest-ever images of our ...

How does a star form from the cold, turbulent gloom of a molecular cloud? Three years have already passed since the James Webb Space Telescope has been revealing how, most recently by removing the ...

NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's ...

Deep within the Milky Way’s core, researchers have uncovered cold gas clouds racing through a superheated galactic wind.

Cosmic dust does far more than float through space. It's the raw material from which stars, planets and possibly even life ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...

NASA detects new planet with temperatures that suggest habitable conditions The planet is 100 times the size of earth, astronomers estimate.

Netflix Reaches for the Stars with NASA Content Deal Netflix’s latest move into live entertainment includes a high-flying partnership with NASA to stream rocket launches and spacewalks worldwide.

NASA has just released a new documentary about the most powerful space telescope ever built, and you can watch it now.