The findings could help solve the mystery of how the first stars formed. The roughly four-billion-year-old system consists of a black hole and two orbiting stars—a configuration that's never been seen ...

In a new study, astronomers report novel evidence regarding the limits of planet formation, finding that after a certain point, planets larger than Earth have difficulty forming near low-metallicity ...

The formation of stars is intricately linked to the complex structure and dynamics of molecular clouds—vast, cold, and dense regions in the interstellar medium that primarily consist of molecular ...

Imagine studying the formation of a star 5 million years in the making, a newborn in the jargon of astronomers, that's tucked away in a "cosmic nursery" light-years away and yielding two growing ...

An international team of astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion ...

The astrophysicist Joao Alves, director of the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, and his colleague Andreas Buerkert, from the German observatory in the University of Munich, believe that “the ...

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our Sun. Like many small stars, it is not expected to provide suitable conditions for the formation and ...