Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the outskirts of the Milky Way—the first direct evidence of star formation in such an ...

A simulation by Tiago Costa predicting strong winds from a simulated early quasar. Credit: Newcastle University. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered powerful winds ...

This artist's concept depicts a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. The "quasar winds" are propelling hundreds of solar masses of material outward into the galaxy disk each year. This ...

Thick clumps of star-forming gas, shown in red and orange, appear on one of the spiral arms of the Messier 51 galaxy. Credit: ESA / NASA / CSA / A. Pedrini / A. Adamo Newborn stars born in the biggest ...

Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way. Puzzlingly, supermassive black holes more than a billion times the mass of the sun appear to exist just a ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies, studying ...

The formation of the first, or Population III, stars marked a pivotal epoch in cosmic history. Emerging in dark matter minihalos at redshifts of around 20–30, these metal-free objects arose from the ...

Ring galaxies and polar-ring galaxies offer natural laboratories for investigating how dynamical processes shape star formation. In collisional ring systems, a near head-on encounter launches a ...

Star Wars fans have no shortage of new and upcoming stories set in a galaxy far, far away. The series returns to theaters with The Mandalorian and Grogu on May 22. The Ryan Gosling-led Star Wars: ...

The Milky Way’s star-forming activity ends about 40,000 light-years from its center, revealed by a surprising pattern in stellar ages. Beyond that, stars are mostly migrants that slowly drifted ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...

This week marks the first new "Star Wars" theatrical release in seven years. Lucasfilm's "Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu" premieres May 22. In the new film, Pedro Pascal reprises his role as Din ...