The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies within its vicinity. A quasar is a powerful source of light, created by torrid gas orbiting a ...

Star formation is in business in a pair of merging galaxies recently photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The spiral galaxies UGC 05028 and UGC 05029 — collectively known as Arp 300 — are in ...

Big news for space enthusiasts: The James Webb Space Telescope, renowned for its remarkable ability to peer deep into the universe, has recently turned its gaze toward a particularly distant and ...

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open ...

The planet heading to doom might not be a surprise, but new data revealed that the universe was not doing any better. Astronomers released a sneak peek of the most accurate measurements yet of key ...

In the latest discovery made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astrophysicists detected six wandering rogue planets unbound from the gravitational influence of any star. The ...

Massive star clusters brimming with giant, luminous blue stars are forming in the unraveled wreckage of interacting galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Early stages of star formation are now better understood, following an extensive millimeter-wave study of protostars, which are young stellar objects still deeply embedded in their parent molecular ...

A stunning corner of the cosmos was recently revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope, and astronomers think the find will unveil more about the mysteries of both star and planet formation. Hiding ...

Observations made by Chile's ALMA telescope have revealed a gigantic quasar quenching a galaxy's star formation — a first-of-its-kind observation in the early universe. When you purchase through links ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), has ...