Our sun may be responsible for life on Earth, but stars across the galaxy are also responsible for creating a plethora of ...

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...

Stars form in wide regions in space known as stellar nurseries, where dust and gas come together to give birth to new stars ...

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

You can stare at the clouds from the comfort of your own home with this clever DIY. The decorative lamp looks like a fluffy ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Stars form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), vast clouds of mostly hydrogen that can span tens of light years. These stellar ...

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

Astronomers have discovered that many infant stars born in stellar nurseries of the early universe may have preferred "fluffy" stellar blankets.

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...

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