Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The beautiful Chamaeleon I star-forming region as seen by the DECam instrument mounted on the ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula. The Cat's Paw Nebula is named after its resemblance to a feline footprint: ...

The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

What stage of a star’s life do planets start forming? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a pair of researchers from the Southwest Research Institute ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

The red shade shows the atomic hydrogen gas content of the galaxy, overlaid on the optical image. The atomic gas that is outside the white circle does not contribute significantly to the formation of ...

The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon. However, new ground-based observations, combined with data ...

Theorists have long wondered how massive stars–up to 120 times the mass of the Sun–can form without blowing away the clouds of gas and dust that feed their growth. But the problem turns out to be less ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...