New evidence suggests that conditions in the early universe may have shaped star formation in surprising ways.

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it ...

Caldwell 103 is a treasure of the southern night sky. Also cataloged as NGC 2070 and often called the Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus, this chimerical structure is nestled in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

Mercury and Saturn are neighbors in the sky, about a half a fist held upright and at arm’s length above the west-southwestern ...

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

Stars form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), vast clouds of mostly hydrogen that can span tens of light years. These stellar ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured a stunning image of Leo P, a small, isolated dwarf galaxy ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

Largest samples of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting active black holes have been discovered by a team ...

A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...

The Einstein Probe has detected powerful X-ray light from the explosion of a new star on a white dwarf. This mysterious pair ...