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

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

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

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

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

resulting in the fluffy cloud. If the molecular cloud retains its filamentary shape, it is more likely to break up along its long "string" and form many stars like our sun, a low-mass star with ...