Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have pieced together a key part of the galaxy evolution puzzle, ...

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...

NASA’s TESS has uncovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting twin suns, defying long-held beliefs that binary systems are too ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

Star formation is an intricate process that transforms vast molecular clouds into newborn stars, often accompanied by the formation of circumstellar discs composed of gas and dust. These ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the ...

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