The Classic Story of Star Birth Gets a Shake-Up For billions of years within the Milky Way (but not during the first few ...

Peak star formation took place during cosmic noon, between 2–3 billion years after the Big Bang. The star formation rate (SFR ...

Besides being a point of light, a star is a luminous, spherical mass of plasma, enough to hold itself together under its own gravity. On its own, though, gravitational rounding isn't enough. What ...

Astronomers have observed a key part of star-forming struggles inside L1544, a dense prestellar core in the Taurus molecular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stars form in the universe from massive clouds of gas. European Southern Observatory, CC BY-SA For decades, astronomers have ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika Koulen, Stefano Profumo, and Nolan Smyth from the University of California ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered the true boundary of the Milky Way’s star-forming region using stellar “age mapping.” They found a telltale U-shaped pattern showing that star formation drops sharply around ...

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

A supernova remnant is supposed to be a rough neighborhood for a newborn star. Shock waves rip through space at thousands of ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...

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 ...