A galaxy in a practically empty area of the universe seems to be impossibly forming stars, and new observations have only deepened the puzzle ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

Close companions can influence stellar evolution in many ways. While some companions can be detected around young stellar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has potentially made a groundbreaking discovery, detecting what could be the universe’s ...

Astronomers might just have peered back to the dawn of starlight-not in a time machine, but through a cosmic magnifying glass ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered some of the universe's earliest stars, located about 13 billion light-years from Earth ...