Globular clusters are dense groups of hundreds of thousands to millions of stars that orbit galaxies such as the Milky Way.

In the universe, how gas is gradually transported from large scales to small scales to form an accretion disk around massive ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

A collaborative team has revealed new observational evidence that sheds light on the mystery of massive star formation. Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the ...

The early Universe hosted ultra-weak magnetic fields that still shaped cosmic structures. New simulations establish stricter limits on their strength. Magnetic fields that originated during the earlie ...

Signals from the universe infancy is something that many people have tried to unveil, but it was only recently that someone ...

Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists? In other words, what is the science of why there is anything at all, ...

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the ...

Scientists have discovered a giant black hole that they believe may have been formed in the first few microseconds after the ...

A mysterious population of glowing red dots scattered across the early universe has led astronomers to a startling new theory ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as an international team of researchers ...

Look at this new radio image covered with dots, each of which is a distant galaxy! The brightest spots are galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes and shine bright in radio light. But ...