Besides being a point of light, a star is a luminous, spherical mass of plasma, enough to hold itself together under its own gravity. On its own, though, gravitational rounding isn't enough. What ...
Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...
A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement goes into operation this week on a mission to study how stars behave ...
Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between gravity and magnetic fields in some of our galaxy's most dynamic star forming ...
The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...
In a new study published in the journal Physical Review D, a team of scientists reveals cosmic giants may have formed within ...
Heavy water detected in the disk of V883 Orionis; chemical signature reveals that some of the water formed before the star ...
A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...