Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

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Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

Alexey A Petrov receives funding from the US Department of Energy. Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may be ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And now they may have just found them. Ari Visbal from the University of Toledo ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, some heavier than millions of Earths, are born through fierce struggles ...

NASA’s IXPE has peered into a nearby white dwarf system, revealing towering X-ray emitting gas columns and hidden stellar ...

A team of astrophysicists from Ireland's Maynooth University, led by Dr Emma Whelan, will use information gathered by the Mauve telescope to study how stars and planets form Ireland's Maynooth ...

Far from Earth, drifting between the stars, lies a quiet ocean of carbon. Astronomers call it the interstellar medium, a vast realm where simple and complex molecules float through cold clouds of gas ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is reshaping astronomy with its powerful JWST infrared capabilities, allowing scientists to observe regions of space that were once completely hidden behind thick ...

The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying behavior similar to how stars form. Scientists aren't clear as to why. When you ...