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

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

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Besides being a point of light, a star is a luminous, spherical mass of plasma, enough to hold itself together under its own gravity. On its own, though, gravitational rounding isn't enough. What ...

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

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

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 ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And now they may have just found them. Ari Visbal from the University of Toledo ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika Koulen, Stefano Profumo, and Nolan Smyth from the University of California ...