Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars.

A far infrared image of the Small Magellanic Cloud as observed by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory. Circles indicate the positions observed by the ALMA telescope ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by astronomers using artificial intelligence. This incredibly powerful and fleeting ...

Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy so close to the Milky Way that it is visible to the naked eye from Earth's Southern Hemisphere. Together with the Small Magellanic Cloud, it is one of ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...