What can an exoplanet falling into its own star tell astronomers about the formation and evolution of planetary systems? This ...

A team of UNSW Sydney researchers has unlocked the "sounds" of stars to better understand their age, mass, and evolutionary ...

Of the heavy metals spewed by dying stars, the astronomers were particularly interested in iron-60. That’s because iron-60 is ...

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

New JWST research unveils the surprising influence of strong magnetic fields on star formation within the Milky Way's central ...

"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

NASA's Hubble has captured stunning images of NGC 4941, revealing details of star formation, helping scientists understand ...

What can merging star clusters teach scientists about the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies, which are smaller galaxies than our Milky Way and orbi | Space ...

As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

NGC 4941 dazzles in a new Hubble image, showcasing star-forming regions and a supermassive black hole that dramatically ...