"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe is even more challenging." ...

How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which ...

Scientists using DESI discovered thousands of hidden black holes in dwarf galaxies, changing our understanding of space.

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 ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...

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

Researchers at MSU found that H₃⁺ can form in unexpected ways. They studied molecules hit by high-energy light.

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an active black hole, more ...

Astronomers have uncovered a treasure trove of feeding black holes at the heart of dwarf galaxies — small, faint galaxies ...