The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets.

Astronomers offered a new hypothesis for what created pairs of objects nicknamed JuMBOs, while other scientists argue they ...

Newborn stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust within which planets are born, known as protoplanetary disks. In the ...

If you’re lucky—for a sufficiently broad definition of “lucky”—you’ll materialize over the surface of a star (or inside one) ...

As we enter the penultimate month of 2024, NASA has shared some spectacular images from across the universe and closer to ...

A waning Moon brings out deep-sky objects, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS still stuns, and moons of Saturn and Jupiter stand out in ...

Mars’ features are starting to become visible, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and the Trifid Nebula glows in the sky ...

Daniel Caton is part of a movement that seeks to educate people about the downsides of light pollution and preserve places ...

Astronight Reviews A particular kind of Projector called an “Astronight Room light” is intended to give your living area a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have potentially discovered the first brown dwarfs beyond the borders of ...

Brilliant Jupiter rises at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 1 and by twilight on Nov. 30. It can be found in the constellation Taurus at ...

You can read more about the Skywatch at the club’s website, sjac.us, including a go-no go decision on the afternoon of the big day. If the weather is not going to be good that night, there’s a ...