Star formation

A wagon wheel in space.

Shedding light on how dwarf galaxies assemble their stars.

The denser and more turbulent environments tend to form multiple stars.

NASA’s Webb reveals cosmic cliffs, a glittering landscape of star birth.

Supernova bonanza in nearby galaxy NGC 1569.

Shining only ~300 million years after the Big Bang, it may be home to the oldest stars in the universe.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time detected dimethyl ether...

A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies creates an unusual space triangle.

It is possible that the stars might have been formed by a rare stellar merger event.

Detailed evidence from Hubble shows a black hole in a new light.

Hubble Spies Newly Forming Star Incubating in IC 2631.

The gamma-ray discovery could advance understanding of UFOs’ role in the evolution of galaxies.