Researchers at Kyushu University have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from “fluffy” molecular clouds.

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...

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HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

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A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.