The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

Professor Woong-bae Zee of the College of Liberal Studies at Sejong University has revealed that a galaxy does not possess ...

Each ring is formed in the aftermath of an explosion, giving insight into the dynamic activity of SVS 13 from its infancy. An ...

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.

The discovery of an extremely metal-poor galaxy, observed thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, opens a fissure in the ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

Why does one molecular cloud outdo an entire galactic center in making stars? That’s the puzzle facing astronomers studying ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an astonishing new image of a star-forming region, nicknamed the "Cosmic Rose, ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...