Why are minerals that form only in hot environments found inside cold comets? A domestic research team has found a clue that could solve a question that has long vexed the astronomy community. A team ...

The Hubble Telescope took snapshots of the infant stars, in an effort to understand how larger stars are formed. As part of the Sofia Massive Star Formation Survey, which is investigating how stars – ...

After years of speculation, scientists finally believe they have figured out the crystal conundrum thanks to new imaging from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Their explanation, detailed in a ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from Seoul National University and other international institutions have been able to answer a question that has puzzled scientists for years about ...

New data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows where crystalline silicates form around young stars and how disk outflows transport them to colder, outer regions.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, ...

“EC 53’s layered outflows may lift up these newly formed crystalline silicates and transfer them outward, like they’re on a cosmic highway,” lead author Jeong-Eun Lee, professor at Seoul National ...

The swirling disk around a young star has been found to contain an inventory of seventeen complex organic molecules enough to ...

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates, since crystals require intense heat to form and these "dirty ...

Baby pictures are some of a family's most cherished artifacts. The same thing can be said of the Hubble Space Telescope and the infant stars it immortalizes in its scientific portraits. But while we ...

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled ...