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

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

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from “fluffy” molecular clouds.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Jonathon Amos follows the engineers and astronomers who are working on the biggest telescope ever sent to space, in one of the most important missions in the history of European spaceflight ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty ... These protostars get their names from the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey, conducted with ESA's Herschel Space Observatory.

Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...