A new discovery from a team of astronomers provides a significant clue to star formation. The mystery of star formation in galaxies continues to intrigue astronomers worldwide. Yet a key question ...

Star formation in galaxies is closely linked to molecular gas. In the distant past, when galaxy interactions were more common, these encounters compressed molecular gas, causing dense clouds to ...

The universe has been having fewer and fewer stellar "babies." Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate of star birth has crashed to less than half of what it once was. But here's the twist: the most ...

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 ...

The image of N159 spans about 230 light-years across in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies orbiting ...

The findings could help solve the mystery of how the first stars formed. The roughly four-billion-year-old system consists of a black hole and two orbiting stars—a configuration that's never been seen ...

A new study from two of NASA’s Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Galaxy. The research shows that ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

Gas clouds are a common feature of galaxies. Some are classed as high-velocity clouds and we suspected these might account for some of this galactic feeding material. What makes high-velocity clouds ...

At the heart of most galaxies lies a supermassive black hole — a ginormous entity with a mass so large, it can outweigh millions, if not billions, of suns. According to new research, published in The ...

Star formation in galaxies unfolds as a two‐stage interplay between the assembly of cold, dense molecular clouds and the subsequent collapse of denser regions within them to form stars. In the first ...