PARIS — Start-up satellite operator ProtoStar Ltd. is at risk of being declared in default on loans that financed the company’s ProtoStar-1 satellite, which after nearly a year in orbit is generating ...

James Webb's new image of L1527 Courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. Image processing: J. DePasquale, A. Pagan, and A. Koekemoer (STScI) Looking at the James Webb Space Telescope’s latest ...

San Francisco, CA, November 15, 2006 — ProtoStar Ltd., a Bermuda corporation with principal U.S. operations in San Francisco, moved a step closer to its Asian satellite service by successfully closing ...

NASA scientists are seeing the beginnings of a new star within a spectacular hourglass, courtesy of an image captured by the James Webb Telescope. On Wednesday, NASA released details of ...

NASA officials spoke at a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday morning about the status of the Webb Space Telescope, which has been capturing images of the universe near and far since early this ...

Planetary solar systems like our own don’t just pop into the universe fully formed — instead they evolve from a ring of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disk, which surrounds an early-stage star, ...

In their early stages of formation, the objects that will eventually become stars are small. They grow by gathering material from the surrounding cloud of gas. At least, that’s what current theories ...

Twelve thousand light-years from Earth, a star is forming. At first, it had all the marks of an aging star on its way to death. But new evidence published in the Astrophysical Journal shows that the ...

X-ray observations have revealed something curious about the young star that illuminates McNeil’s Nebula, a glowing jewel of cosmic dust in the Orion constellation: The object is a protostar rotating ...