This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images released to date from NASA's James ...

Scientists mapped out the structure of nine bright cores of galaxies located near the Milky Way and revealed common patterns ...

The formation of the first, or Population III, stars marked a pivotal epoch in cosmic history. Emerging in dark matter minihalos at redshifts of around 20–30, these metal-free objects arose from the ...

This gas led to the formation of stars and expansion of galaxies in the early Universe, according to new research that has provided direct evidence of neutral gas inside distant galaxies. Scientists ...

When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and too mature ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), along with observations from the Atacama Large ...

Black holes can suppress star formation, but nine nearby galaxies reveal how their outflows could also help trigger the birth ...

Observation of the Cygnus X Region with the flying observatory SOFIA revealed that stars form there more quickly than previously assumed. CREDIT NASA Spitzer/IRAC MIPS, USRA/SOFIA (L. Proudfit, L.

Like human births, the birth of stars is a messy affair. Beginning with vast interstellar clouds that collapse under their own titanic gravity, the story of how stars like the Sun are born involves ...