Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the stars rotate, gas and dust accumulates in a rotating disk around the star ...

Massive stars much bigger than our sun always come in pairs or groups, not alone. But astronomers don't fully understand how ...

A new set of supercomputer simulations published June 5, 2026 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has provided the most quantitatively precise confirmation yet of why binary star ...

The first stars were massive, hot, and bright, forming from primordial clumps of hydrogen and helium. They lived fast and died young, but not before producing new elements in their stellar remains ...

Star formation can feel like a distant, abstract concept, until you see it mapped across a landscape of gas and dust. A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope looks at the the N159 star-forming ...