Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way's spiral disk — and it's not as far out from the ...

The Milky Way may not have a sharp edge, but scientists have now found where its star-forming activity largely comes to an ...

The image is created using observations in six different colour bands, allowing scientists to study different features of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active ...

A newly identified group of ancient stars suggests the Milky Way may be hiding the remnants of a previously unknown dwarf ...

Professor Woong-bae Zee of the College of Liberal Studies at Sejong University has revealed that a galaxy does not possess only a single evolutionary pathway; instead, depending on the nature of its ...

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 ...

Our sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers ...

This Collection features original research on the mechanisms driving star formation, the lifecycle of various stellar types, and the complex interactions between stars and their environments. The ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...