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

Stars form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), vast clouds of mostly hydrogen that can span tens of light years. These stellar ...

An X-ray flash coming from an unusual binary star system was recently spotted with help from the unique "Lobster eyes" on the Einstein Probe.

Stars emerge from vast regions of gas and dust known as molecular clouds. These stellar nurseries, often spanning hundreds of ...

On 27 May 2024, astronomers using the Chinese-European Einstein Probe observed a powerful X-ray flash from a nova explosion ...

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

"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe is even more challenging." ...

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

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

The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...

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