A groundbreaking discovery has shed new light on star formation in the early universe, revealing a galaxy that forms stars at ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

A pair of stars in our galaxy is revealing how light pushes around matter. It’s the first time anyone has directly seen how the pressure of light from stars changes the flow of dust in space.

This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Io, ...

Some stars produce dust. But unlike the stuff underneath your TV cabinet, this dust plays a major part in the total luminosity of a galaxy. In a new study, scientists have used long-term observational ...

Of the many different kinds of stars, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, usually slightly larger and older than our own sun, are known producers of interstellar dust. Dusty AGBs are particularly ...

The James Webb Space Telescope photographed a rare binary star system, Wolf-Rayet 140, which makes bounteous dust rings. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScl / JPL-Caltech At a glance, this might look ...

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Look to the east after sunset on a clear winter night and you’ll spot a bright, tightly packed collection of stars. That’s ...

An analysis of millions of galaxies found that the universe is barreling towards what is literally a much darker future.

WASHINGTON -- Astronomers have taken a baby step in trying to answer the cosmic question of where we come from. Planets and much on them, including humans, come from dust — mostly from dying stars.