A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets. The ...

The new simulations show a cross section of the star and its surrounding disk of gas. In the left image, where the young star is weakly magnetized, gas can be seen flowing freely from the surrounding ...

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 ...

The precursors for planets could form around new stars earlier than previously thought. Protoplanetary disks are rings of gas and dust that swirl around newly formed stars, eventually clumping into ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the once-hidden features of the protostar within the dark cloud L1527 with its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), providing insight into the ...

The world’s first 3D simulation simultaneously considering dust motion and growth in a disk around a young star has shown that large dust from the central region can be entrained by and then ejected ...

PARIS — Startup satellite operator ProtoStar Ltd., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection July 29, hopes to use the reprieve from its creditors to auction its two orbiting direct-to-home ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --Researchers in Japan have identified a young star with an already warped protoplanetary disk. The discovery could help scientists better understand how planets come to travel in ...

It may contain inaccuracies due to the limitations of machine translation. Chemical changes around the variable protostar B335. In Phase 2 (center image), as the protostar brightens explosively, ...

ntelsat outlasted Eutelsat in an Oct. 29 auction of the in-orbit ProtoStar 1 telecommunications satellite with a $210 million all-cash offer that far exceeded what most industry observers had ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have observed the eating habits of a newborn star — and like any youngster, it has an ...

New image offers window into what our Sun and Solar System looked like in infancy. This latest image is courtesy of Webb’s primary imager, the Near-Infrared Camera (MIRCam). To capture images of very ...