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.

If planetary formation times are correct, and the conditions in the Orion nebula are typical of stellar nurseries, then only one star in 10 is likely to form a planetary system, O’Dell says.

In the Orion Nebula lies a host of bizarre, teardrop-shaped objects. They look like strange comets, but are in fact evaporating, planet-forming disks around young stars.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed surprising pairs of planet-like objects in the Orion Nebula that have never been detected before ...

BERKELEY – A detailed survey of stars in the Orion Nebula has found that fewer than 10 percent have enough surrounding dust to make Jupiter-sized planets, according to a report by astronomers at ...

In the Orion Nebula there were observations suggesting that actually, with the right shocks and interactions, you could end up forming objects as small as about three times the mass of Jupiter.

A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest.

Orion’s Twin Rogue Planets Inexplicably Blaze with Intense Radio Waves Researchers don’t know how this pair of free-floating planets formed or why it radiates so brightly ...

There's now even more evidence that a bizarre star system perched on the constellation Orion's nose may contain the rarest type of planet in the known universe: a single world orbiting three suns ...

Seventy-six years ago, the world got its first glimpse of the cosmic bird’s eye view over our planet from the first photograph ever taken from space. Today, November 16, 2022, the grandest ...