An old galaxy reveals clusters of young stars that have formed in an unusually synchronized fashion, challenging the idea ...

An international collaboration of radio astronomers has found evidence suggesting that massive stars might not form as models ...

Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

Planet-forming disks around stars naturally fade away over time. Some of the disk falls onto the star and some is heated up by X-ray and ultraviolet radiation from the star and evaporates in a ...

reveal fresh insight into how these strange failed stars form. The team published its research Oct. 23 in The Astrophysical Journal. NGC 602 is a roughly 3 million-year-old star-forming cluster on ...