A team of astrophysicists from Nanjing University and University of Bonn have demonstrated that, rather than being random, ...

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow larger over time. But the heftier the planet, the harder it is to explain ...

Astronomers don’t have to work hard to find binary stars in the Milky Way. They’re common, even abundant. For a long time, ...

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

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

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

A blazing supermassive black hole can influence far more than its own galaxy. Scientists found that quasars emit radiation strong enough to shut down star formation in nearby galaxies millions of ...