Scientists observe stars forming in the modern universe to understand how the process plays out. This is difficult because stars take so much time to form, while we've only been watching young stars ...

Researchers at the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) made the discovery about galaxies by studying the gas distribution that helps create stars. Using CSIRO's ASKAP radio ...

Ultra-detailed simulations are showing how the first stars lit up the dark Universe and seeded space with elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The MEGATRON project could bridge JWST observations ...

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Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you'll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that's only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

There’s a new contender for the universe’s earliest first-generation stars. A bright clump seen about 450 million years after the Big Bang has the chemical hallmarks of first-generation stars — ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest star clusters and galaxies. These short-lived giants not only forged the ...

Supermassive black holes are ravenous. Clumps of dust and gas are prone to being disrupted by the turbulence and radiation when they are pulled too close. So why are some of them orbiting on the edge ...

So says the Earl of Salisbury as he ruminates about the future in Shakespeare’s “Richard II.” Astronomers are just beginning to understand these real-life shooting stars – called hypervelocity stars – ...

One of the ironies of deep-sky imaging is that stars are generally not the stars of the show. Of course, there are exceptions with targets like open clusters. But for nebulae and other objects, the ...