The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation.
A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming ...
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Neutron star physics

In this video I show you what happens when you try to get close to 1 drop of a neutron star. I tell you how a neutron star is made and then also talk about different types of stars and show you a ...
One of the brightest stars in the night sky will vanish as seen from North America and Europe in a rare event.
A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...
Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of ...
Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the universe was very young. At that time chemistry was simple. The stars would ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including unusually bright galaxies, rapidly forming black holes, and compact objects that ...
A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...
the binary star RXJ0528+2838, located about 730 light-years from Earth. The discovery of this shock wave overturns conventional astronomy wisdom, according to the ESO. The observations reported this ...