Astronomers have identified a compact, superheated galaxy in the early universe that is churning out new suns at roughly 180 ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dusty star-forming galaxy at high redshift. The newfound ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

Imaging shows NGC 6789 building stars in near-total isolation, pushing scientists to rethink gas supply and formation in ...

Spanish astronomers have conducted deep optical imaging of an isolated dwarf galaxy known as NGC 6789. Results of the new ...

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 ...

The discovery highlights intense, hidden starbursts that shaped early galaxies less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

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: ...

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 ...

Over the course of billions of years, the universe has steadily been evolving. Thanks to the expansion of the universe, we ...

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 ...

Heavy water detected in the disk of V883 Orionis; chemical signature reveals that some of the water formed before the star ...