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 ...

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 ...

When a galaxy burns through its star-forming fuel at 100 times the rate of the Milky Way, you might expect it to simply run ...

Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research ...

That uncertainty has made one question especially stubborn for astronomers: where does the galaxy’s star-forming disc ...

Astronomers have discovered the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, revealing that most new stars form within 40,000 ...

The older stars migrated out from the galactic center, leaving the younger ones inside.

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 ...

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 ...