"Baby star clusters" are aggregates of very young stars in the early stages of formation. Distinguished by their recent birth ...

Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the ...

The birth of massive stars involves gravity, turbulence, and stellar feedback, all of which influence the flow of matter. Find out more here: ...

A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's ...

We're starting to see just how exceptional our own solar system and its history is, as more exoplanets are discovered. A fourth exoplanet discovery in the LHS 1903 system made by ESA's CHEOPS mission ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

GRB 230906A, a short gamma-ray burst first detected in 2023, points to a faint galaxy embedded within a long stream of torn ...

A groundbreaking study in galactic archaeology proves the Sun made a treacherous journey to reach its current home in the ...

Over 4 billion years ago, as planets were coalescing around the newborn Sun, our star may have gone on an epic road trip across the Milky Way along with thousands of stellar "twins." And we may owe ...

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of ...

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos ...

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.