When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

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

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Webb reveals a bridge of stars linking two nearby dwarf galaxies, offering a look at how gravity reshapes galaxies and sparks ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between gravity and magnetic fields in some of our galaxy's most dynamic star forming ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

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

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...

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 ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...