Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...

A stream of stars and gas are being fed to the heart of a stellar nursery in the Small Magellanic Cloud, fueling intense star formation.

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, much like the environment of the ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

Most disks observed were about 30 astronomical units wide, roughly 30 times the Earth-Sun distance. The presence of intricate structures in such early systems implies a parallel evolution of infant ...

Gas and dust swirl in the young star cluster NGC1333, a stellar nursery where objects including stars, planets and brown dwarfs are born.

Born 4.6 billion years ago, our star is well into midlife and has wandered far from its ancestral home—some nameless, now vanished “stellar nursery” of gas that long ago dispersed or ...

The fast orbits of these regions and their extreme closeness to the energetic and chaotic Galactic Center negatively impacts the star formation process in these star-forming regions.

A gorgeous new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning sight from one of our galactic neighbors. The image shows a region of star formation called NGC 346, where new stars are ...

Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: an energetic stellar nursery. This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, surrounded by the ...