We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...

Astronomers have taken their clearest look yet at how some of the biggest stars in our galaxy are born—and it turns out the ...

Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

The “space dust” which helps to form the stars and planets around the cosmos is spongier than previously thought, a group of scientists have found. The international group of astronomers and ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...

Across the galaxy, stars are born in immense clouds of gas and dust — stellar nurseries where gravity coaxes material to coalesce and ignite. Around many of these newborn stars, the surrounding gas ...

Why it's so special: Stars in the Milky Way galaxy are born in huge molecular clouds. The most massive is Sagittarius B2, which is just a few hundred light-years from our the galaxy's central black ...

The GWTC 4.0 catalog records 128 new gravitational wave signals, revealing mergers of black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO.

Astronomers on Thursday released time-lapse movies dramatizing the fiery behavior of two young star systems, observations that could shed light on the genesis of our solar system. The nearby stars, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peered into a young star cluster called Pismis 24, which is one of the closest clusters of new massive stars to Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Alyssa Pagan ...