For the first time ever, astronomers revealed the birthplace of an energetic jet blasted by a newborn star using the Atacama ...

When it comes to science, a simple observation can upend everything you think you know, such is the case with one star ...

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

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

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 ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...

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 ...

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

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 ...