This is not a close-up of a sparkling soda from a movie theater promotion. The James Webb Space Telescope captured this image ...

Astronomers have stumbled onto a structure so vast and so oddly shaped that it threatens to upend one of cosmology’s most cherished assumptions about how the universe is built. The “Big Ring,” a ...

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Scientists are exploring the possibility of a looped universe, where space folds back on itself like a hall of mirrors. New ...

Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...

A figure illustrating the rotation of a newly discovered cosmic filament. (Seoyoung Lyla Jung/University of Oxford) (CN) — It appears the more we investigate the universe for answers, the more ...

'This is something we’ve never seen in stars that are analogs of stars in the early universe,' an astronomer said.

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...