S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets ...

The findings suggest that sufficiently small particles introduced into the laboratory vortex should behave similarly to dust ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image ...

Astronomers just caught a celestial sneak peek at how solar systems are born, and it starts with something delightfully small ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

A proposed Buc-ee's location in Colorado has been met with fierce backlash from locals. Here's why. A 600-year-old Chaucer mystery may finally be solved ...

What lies within a toe bean? According to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, mini toe beans composed of gas, dust, and stars.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, the agency has ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...