In the ALMAGAL project, an international research team will analyze observations of more than a thousand "star factories" to ...

Astronomers have long sought to understand the processes that lead to the birth of planetary systems. Recently, a major breakthrough was achieved as scientists witnessed the early stages of planet ...

A new study is challenging the understanding of planetary disk formation around young stars. It reveals that the environment plays a crucial role in determining the size and lifetime of these ...

Astronomers have identified the outer boundary of the star-forming region in the Milky Way. By analysing the ages of stars ...

The cosmos is a void dotted with stars and an ever-increasing number of newly-observed planets beyond our solar system. Yet, how these stars and planets formed out of clouds of interstellar dust and ...

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 ...

An international team led by Dr. Indrani Das of Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has shown, ...

Big news for space enthusiasts: The James Webb Space Telescope, renowned for its remarkable ability to peer deep into the universe, has recently turned its gaze toward a particularly distant and ...

Spread the loveThe boundaries between planets and stars have long been a topic of debate among astronomers, but recent observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are reshaping our ...

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...

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 ...

Astrophysicists have discovered how ‘Galactic snake’, a serpentine-shaped molecular cloud, 9,523 light years away from Earth, is spawning massive stars 1. These stars, eight times heavier than the Sun ...