Just as people of the same age can vary greatly in appearance and shape, so do collections of stars or stellar aggregates. New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...

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 ...

Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have discovered a brown dwarf companion orbiting a nearby ...

Star formation is an intricate process that transforms vast molecular clouds into newborn stars, often accompanied by the formation of circumstellar discs composed of gas and dust. These ...

Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

On Oct. 11, 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spent over 20 hours observing the long-studied Hubble Ultra Deep Field for the first time. The general observer program (GO 1963) focused on ...

Indian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes and their powerful jets regulate galaxy growth by halting ...

How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

Galaxies have long served as beacons for understanding the Universe's vast structure and evolution. Astrophysicists and ...