How does that work, and how do stars form in the first place? Let's take a tour of one of the universe's most defining, beautiful, and enduring objects—including our own Sun. Most of an atom's ...

"These molecular clouds are places where stars form only when the gas is very dense ... "Paper three presented a new simple ellipse model that is a slightly better fit than the previous models.

New findings from the University of Bonn challenge the assumptions of the standard cosmological model. The faint "afterglow" ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

The Big Bang marked the beginning of our universe—at least according to the standard model of cosmology ... under the force of its own gravity to form stars. Without this uneven distribution ...

MIT researchers used the Frontier supercomputer to simulate the density and pressure inside neutron stars, vital for ...