Stunning star formations were captured during the holiday season by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space ...

"We must rethink how we create computer models for planet formation and early evolution in the young universe." ...

Case Studies in Star Formation offers an overview of our current observational and theoretical understanding in the molecular astronomy of star formation. The book is divided into six sections: the ...

Magnetic fields have been observed for the first time in the heart of merging galaxies, hinting they play a critical role in star formation by stabilizing and concentrating stellar material. Credit: ...

A new article published in “Universe” describes an approach that looks back from the deaths of stars to their births, allowing the so-called initial mass function (IMF), i.e. the way in which star ...

The odd atmosphere of a fledgling exoplanet is causing astronomers to question leading theories of how planets form.

The Antennae Galaxies, part of the constellation Corvus, are colliding and going through a starburst phase marked by rapid star formation. (Credit: NASA ... They concluded that flows of cold gas and ...

Researchers have used the ALMA telescope and found old elliptical galaxies in the universe can form from intense star formation within early galaxy cores. An international team of researchers ...

"Using these data, researchers can measure the ages of NGC 2566’s stars, which helps piece together the timeline of the galaxy’s star formation and the exchange of gas between star-forming clouds and ...

"For observational astrophysicists, one widely accepted picture of planet formation was likely too simplified." ...

Share An international team of researchers, including scientists from The University of Tokyo’s Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, has discovered evidence suggesting that ...