While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented detail. This target is ...

James Webb and Hubble reveal HH 30, a young star’s chaotic birth in a cosmic nursery, shedding light on dust movement, jets, ...

The objects were in the same region of the sky but were 13,000 light-years apart and not related to each other. The details ...

Star formation is the process by which stars are born from dense regions of gas and dust in interstellar space The process starts when some of those clumps reach a critical mass, allowing them to ...

Ohio State astronomy professor Adam Leroy is the 2025 recipient of the Henry Draper Medal. The Henry Draper Medal, established in 1886, is awarded every four years to a researcher or pair of ...

Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...

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NASA is preparing to launch its latest space observatory, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer), a mission that promises to ...

A University of Hawaii at Mānoa study on the freezing of water droplets suspended in air sheds light on a key process in ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...