“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

Chinese scientists have announced details on the upcoming China Space Station Telescope (CSST), a cutting-edge observatory ...

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

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.

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

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