By peering deep inside Orion's star-forming gas clouds, radio astronomers have been able to directly measure the masses of ...

In a recent Hot Take segment, the China Global Television Network recently released an interesting video detailing China's future plans for space. Titled "Earth 2.0? China's plan to find new Earth," ...

A string of small gas clouds near the Milky Way’s central black hole has puzzled astronomers for years. Now, new observations ...

Studying the star, called SDSS J0715-7334, could give astronomers insights into how the universe's first stars were formed ...

The interaction between the internal rotation and magnetic fields retards or speeds up the spin rate.

At sundown, at a star party on the high texas plains near FortDavis, west of the Pecos, the parched landscape was crowded with telescopes. Reared against the darkening skies to the west rose a set of ...

A tranquil-looking cloud of gas and dust might not sound like much to get excited about, but it's home to one of the most fundamental phenomena in astronomy: star formation. This is the star-forming ...

The star is the most chemically pristine star ever seen, with barely any heavy elements.

A star's mass determines its entire life story, from how it shines to how it dies. For young stars shrouded in dust, getting ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of two exploding stars that demonstrate these blasts are far more complicated ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, because that’s where the conditions are right for stars to form. Within galaxies, stars form inside cold, dense molecular gas clouds like those ...