A recent image from the Hubble telescope offers us a dive into the heart of N159, an immense stellar nursery where the cosmic ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

What makes red geysers stand out is that they show faint, galaxy-scale outflows of ionized gas, stretching tens of thousands ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

Here are six of the most stunning newborn stars and galaxies images shot by NASA James Webb Space Telescope, depicting the ...

A recent study provides answers to three seemingly disparate yet pressing cosmic dawn puzzles. Specifically, the authors show ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

This Collection features original research on the mechanisms driving star formation, the lifecycle of various stellar types, and the complex interactions between stars and their environments. The ...

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 ...