A team of University of Florida researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture photos of a star-forming region ...

Westerhaut 51 is the unassuming name of a vast "star factory" 17,000 light years from Earth. 350 light years across, it ...

Not only does the star have less metal content than our Sun, but it is also the most iron-poor known star.

Baby stars release excess energy by ejecting magnetic “sneezes,” forming giant warm gas rings, new ALMA observations reveal.

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ Pristine star reveals the dawn ...

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...

The Virgo Cluster holds literally thousands of galaxies, many of which are big, bright, and beautiful. NGC 4535 checks two of ...

(CN) — A newborn star deep inside a cloud of gas and dust appears to be “sneezing,” sending out bursts of energy that may ...

Star formation is an intricate process that transforms vast molecular clouds into newborn stars, often accompanied by the formation of circumstellar discs composed of gas and dust. These ...

Researchers have uncovered new insights into the early development of baby stars. As published in The Astrophysical Journal ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the ...