Researchers have recreated helium hydride ions, the universe’s first molecules, reshaping our understanding of early star formation.

But observing galaxies is one thing. Observing the formation of individual stars more than 13 billion years ago is functionally impossible. Fortunately, supercomputer simulations can get us close.

A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered compelling evidence that a cloud–cloud ...

NASA’s Hubble and Webb telescopes observe explosive star formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud's NGC 460 and NGC 456 clusters.

This indicates that star formation has proceeded over an extended period of time, although we cannot discriminate between an extended episode and a series of short and frequent bursts that are not ...

With the telescope’s unprecedented ability to unveil the previously “hidden” side of star formation and black hole evolution, MEGA helps to fill a longstanding gap in current astrophysical models, ...

A stunning new image captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) reveals the Circinus West molecular cloud, a dense, dark region where young stars are actively forming.

These strong magnetic fields might also resist gravitational collapse, suppressing star formation and explaining the lower-than-expected birth rate of stars in Sagittarius C. This discovery opens the ...

Stars are born in dense clouds of gas and dust, but new evidence suggests that conditions in the early universe may have shaped their formation in surprising ways. In a recent study, observations of ...

Scientists are learning about star formation by studying a neighbor of the Milky Way, a small galaxy named Leo P. Kristen McQuinn/NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Isolated, low-mass galaxies help ...

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of years later.