The jellyfish galaxy in question. The dashed circles mark the four extra-planar sources that are identified in the galaxy’s tail. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal. Astronomers ...

Astronomers have reported observations of a rare star system consisting of one star orbiting a system of three more tightly ...

The discovery made by a large research team challenges the existing models of the universe.

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers have detailed how groups of stars can regulate their formation. Stars form in groups – or clusters – out of dense clouds of gas and ...

NASA has captured a stunning view of the birth of a star, revealing details never seen before. This breakthrough offers a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an accretion disk around a young star showing a wind of matter spinning around it. . Astronomers have ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first delivered unprecedented images of some of the universe’s earliest galaxies, it left astronomers scratching their heads. These distant galaxies, which ...

Gravitational lensing exposed a distant protocluster once seen as a faint smudge, revealing eleven dusty star-forming galaxies through combined ALMA and NSF VLA observations.

This Collection features original research on the mechanisms driving star formation, the lifecycle of various stellar types, and the complex interactions between stars and their environments. The ...