We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

In the ALMAGAL project, an international research team will analyze observations of more than a thousand "star factories" to ...

optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and radio data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers released a depiction of a star-forming region called 30 Doradus.

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), along with observations from the Atacama Large ...

Scientists have discovered two enigmatic icy objects in deep space that defy explanation. Unlike typical interstellar ice ...

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments into later generations of stars in less filamentary structures. This ...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery about how young stars form in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy near the Milky Way. Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and ...

has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), operating in Chile's Atacama Desert.

The clarity of Chilean skies in the Atacama Desert may be in jeopardy given a project entertained by the electricity company AES Andes which could significantly affect the operations of the ...