Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Star clusters are of great importance in any galaxy: they are the birthplace of new stars, often containing massive stars of ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...

A study of 91 pairs of stars finds that about 8%, or one in 12, swallowed up a planet at some point in their lives. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Uncover the secrets of Milky Way formation. New research uses simulations to explain the mysterious chemical divide in our ...

In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder ...

image: A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as ...

Astronomers setting their sights halfway across the observable universe recently identified the largest amount of individual stars ever detected so far away – a feat once considered near-impossible.

A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their ...

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 ...