What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first ...

NGC 3603-A1 is a pair of giant stars locked in a rapid 3.8-day orbit. Their dynamic relationship provides clues to how massive stars evolve and form black holes. A team of astronomers combined archiva ...

Two new studies challenge scientists’ previous theories on how the very first stars in the universe formed.

The dragon's fat shape holds clues about how stars form -- and how the process stops. Orion's Nebula is an enormous cloud of gas and dust about 1,300 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have gained insights into star formation by capturing the first spatially resolved detection of protostellar ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are ...

Stars form inside molecular clouds—cold, dense regions filled with gas and dust. Gravity pulls this matter inward until the pressure and heat become great enough to ignite nuclear fusion.

The stars that come into being and form stellar clusters in specific locations in a galaxy play a crucial role in the life of that galaxy.

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to reveal that the warped ring around Fomalhaut ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.