About 12 million light years away lies an impossible galaxy. Over the last 600 million years, its core has been forming new stars – but there is no apparent source for the fuel that has fed that star ...

New infrared observations from NASA’s SOFIA observatory have revealed a puzzling slowdown in massive star formation near the center of our Galaxy. Credit: Stock The current rate of star formation at ...

Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked in the cosmos, and that the universe is bound to get steadily 'colder and ...

In a groundbreaking observation, the James Webb Space Telescope captured unprecedented detail within the Small Magellanic Cloud. The images revealed hundreds of young stars forming in metal-poor ...

“Our analysis shows a unique planetary arrangement: two planets are transiting one star, and the third is transiting its companion star,” said co-lead author Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernández, researcher and ...

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

For the first time ever, astronomers revealed the birthplace of an energetic jet blasted by a newborn star using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. When you purchase ...

For decades, scientists have studied how planets form by looking at young stars nearby, assuming that these environments could be representative of all star systems. However, as astronomers discover ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured the most massive star-forming cloud in the Milky Way's galactic central region. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Adam Ginsburg / Nazar Budaiev / Taehwa Yoo / ...