Within the image, thick clouds of cold hydrogen gas arrange themselves into ridges and wispy filaments. The deep red tones ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

Astronomers used to rely on chance to catch a glimpse of fleeting explosions in space. A fresh approach to watching these ...

Korean researchers have uncovered the secret to how planets and comets could form far from a star — considered a mystery until now — by finding the key in a substance named crystalline silicates as ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...