The universe has been having fewer and fewer stellar "babies." Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate of star birth has ...

Star formation in galaxies is closely linked to molecular gas. In the distant past, when galaxy interactions were more common ...

Credit: National Astronomical Observatories of China and Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of CAS The Universe still has ...

For decades, astronomers believed that star formation was slowing down simply because galaxies were running out of cold gas — ...

Star formation across the universe has fallen dramatically over the past 4.5 billion years, but astronomers have uncovered a ...

Star formation has fallen by more than half over 4.5 billion years, even as the universe’s supply of atomic hydrogen has ...

A new study finds that two early-universe objects thought to be faint quasars are actually extraordinarily luminous galaxies ...

Hubble reveals a vast cosmic bubble where massive stars cleared away gas, only for the compressed material around it to begin ...

When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and too mature ...

Professor Woong-bae Zee of the College of Liberal Studies at Sejong University has revealed that a galaxy does not possess only a single evolutionary pathway; instead, depending on the nature of its ...

A team of experienced experts discusses the significant role of interstellar dust in star and planet formation ...

The findings could help solve the mystery of how the first stars formed. The roughly four-billion-year-old system consists of a black hole and two orbiting stars—a configuration that's never been seen ...