A team of astrophysicists from Nanjing University and University of Bonn have demonstrated that, rather than being random, the mass of new stars born inside a star cluster is actually governed by a ...

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 ...

A chance observation by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revealed an extraordinary stellar nursery ...

To understand how young stars affect galactic evolution, researchers studied 18,000 star-forming regions in nearby spiral ...