Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously believed." ...

Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn into red giants and expand. Earth will be eaten by the sun in billions of years ...

"We can chart a course for Mars in line with the president's vision to return to the moon before the Chinese can get there ...

The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ... They appear red because they no longer contain ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

Initially mistaken for a star swallowing a planet, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed a dramatic collision. A planet, ...

This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

This means that although the stars are relatively close in space terms, they're still very ... collapse and blow off their outer layers in a "red giant" stage, eventually leaving behind a compact ...