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

The night sky often feels calm, yet the early universe tells a very different story. A newly studied ancient galaxy, seen as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. ALMA observations of the protoplanetary disk around HD 142527. The white bars show the directions ...

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.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a rare and tumultuous sight 15,000 light-years away from Earth. The space observatory captured a scintillating image of a Wolf-Rayet star called WR 124 in ...