Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a nearby spiral galaxy known ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

The birth of massive stars involves gravity, turbulence, and stellar feedback, all of which influence the flow of matter.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified emerging young star clusters still breaking free from their ...

The Gaia telescope spotted more than 6,000 sunlike stars, all of which appear to have migrated from the galaxy's center more ...

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

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

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

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

Astronomers discover PicII‑503, a 14-billion-year-old star carrying primordial elements, challenging theories of early star ...

A powerful "gamma-ray burst" has been seen exploding from merging neutron stars hidden within a previously unknown ...