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 ...

Pioneering approaches like this method to model molecular clouds in 3D are helping researchers glean more information about the conditions that lead to star formation. "While we learn a lot about ...

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 ...

The 'peculiar' objects don't resemble anything scientists have seen before and could even be an entirely new kind of star.

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 ...