An international team led by Dr. Indrani Das of Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has shown, ...

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain ...

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered the hidden mysteries of the W51 star-forming region, giving astronomers an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The James Webb Space ...

Westerhaut 51 is the unassuming name of a vast "star factory" 17,000 light years from Earth. 350 light years across, it ...

Baby stars release excess energy by ejecting magnetic “sneezes,” forming giant warm gas rings, new ALMA observations reveal.

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...

NASA's XRISM X-ray spacecraft has clocked 2 million mph winds ripping out of a distant galaxy bursting with star formation.

The discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, offers a rare glimpse into the evolution of ancient stars and how they ...

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host. Astronomers observed a relatively weak but restless jet blasting outward from ...