Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Puzzlingly, supermassive black ...

To find the end of the Milky Way, scientists looked to the outermost star-formation site, roughly 40,000 light-years from the ...

The Milky Way may not have a sharp edge, but scientists have now found where its star-forming activity largely comes to an ...

Timing the clouds with telescopes.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies, studying ...

When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and too mature ...

Stars and gas spiral slowly toward the center of a massive star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy 200,000 light years away. Their movement helps fuel new star formation in the ...

This discovery of ancient stars provides insights into the chaotic evolution of the early Milky Way.

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly simultaneously 4 million years ago. This observation marks the first time ...

BERKELEY — In order for a rare, massive star to form inside an interstellar cloud of gas and dust, small “helper” stars about the size of the sun must first set the stage, according to a new theory ...

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 ...