University of Denver astronomers have revealed new insights into how carbon-rich dust—which is crucial for planet ...

Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed ...

Often referred to as "failed stars," brown dwarfs form in isolation from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust like a star. However, while fully-fledged stars continue to gather material from the gas ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

There, the mysterious G objects that appear to be clouds of gas and dust may instead be binary stars about to merge, like the D9 pair, or remnant material from past mergers, researchers say.

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...