Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Pictures are the key to new insights in the field of astrophysics. Such images include simulations of cosmic events, which astrophysicists at UZH use to investigate how stars, planets and galaxies ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you happen to find yourself in the Southern Hemisphere with binoculars and a good view of the night sky on a dark and clear summer night, you might just be able to spot the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from the University of Florida and elsewhere have performed infrared observations of a star-forming cloud known as Sagittarius B2. Results of ...

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...