Astronomers relate these properties to one another in graphs known as Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams ... As stars get bigger, broadly speaking, they get hotter and brighter. Low-mass stars turn ...

Ralf Klessen investigates the physical processes that governed the formation of the first generation of stars in the early ...

The data revealed that gas from HW2's accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an ...

Gaia-4b is the most massive planet known to orbit a low-mass star. Also, see an animation for Gaia-5b, a brown dwarf orbiting a low-mass star. They were detected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, astronomers have revealed for the first time the huge flow ...

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

Stars have long inspired curiosity among observers, but our understanding of their birth and the creation of planets around ...

To find Ophion, Dylan and colleagues developed a new model to explore Gaia’s vast, unrivalled trove of spectroscopic data and learn more about young, low-mass stars lying reasonably near to the Sun.

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ...