Stars are born in stellar nurseries, molecular clouds of cold gas and dust. These clouds contain many times the mass of a ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...

White dwarfs are the remnants of once-sunlike stars that have burned through their nuclear fuel. These stripped-down cores ...

It’s previously been predicted that stars can ‘hiccup’ – yes, really – but now a new study has found evidence of this rare event occurring in a star in the final stages of its life before exploding.

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

Stunning star formations were captured during the holiday season by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space ...

"We must rethink how we create computer models for planet formation and early evolution in the young universe." ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

The Star Wars universe has produced more than a dozen movies and TV shows across nearly five decades, featuring hundreds of actors along the way. Mainstays such as Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie ...