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

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. (Northwestern University/UT Austin) Astrophysicists have developed an astonishingly realistic model of how stars form called the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stars form in the universe from massive clouds of gas. European Southern Observatory, CC BY-SA For decades, astronomers have ...

A computational model of the early-to-present-day Universe predicts that some of the first stars formed in structures that challenge conventional classification. Read the paper: The emergence of ...

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

How far the Milky Way's disk extends has long been difficult to define—it doesn't end sharply, but fades away gradually at ...