New evidence suggests that conditions in the early universe may have shaped star formation in surprising ways.

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...

Stars emerge from vast regions of gas and dust known as molecular clouds. These stellar nurseries, often spanning hundreds of ...

Stars form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), vast clouds of mostly hydrogen that can span tens of light years. These stellar ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Images from ALMA telescope provide insight to the earlier years of our universe.

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars.

A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 ...

"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe is even more challenging." ...

In our Milky Way galaxy, the molecular clouds that facilitate star formation have an elongated "filamentary" structure about 0.3 light-years wide. Astronomers believe that our Solar System was ...