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

A newly discovered galaxy is challenging what scientists thought they knew about galactic collisions. Located 567 million ...

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 ...

Images from ALMA telescope provide insight to the earlier years of our universe.

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

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

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

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

Sgr A* possesses roughly 4 million times the mass of our sun and is located about 26,000 light-years from Earth. A light-year ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.