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

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 ...

Fresh insights into star clusters advance our understanding of galaxy and planet formation.

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 ...

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open clusters closely associated both in position and kinematics. They provide ...

The Milky Way may not have a sharp edge, but scientists have now found where its star-forming activity largely comes to an ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may be examples of dark stars. The concept of dark stars has existed for some ...