New research suggests they could play a crucial role in the creation of planets themselves. At a conference in Helsinki, ...

A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement goes into operation this week on a mission to study how stars behave ...

Pictures are the key to new insights in the field of astrophysics. Such images include simulations of cosmic events, which astrophysicists at UZH use to investigate how stars, planets and galaxies ...

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

A recent astronomical discovery has shaken long-held beliefs about how planets form. For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that ...

Heavy water detected in the disk of V883 Orionis; chemical signature reveals that some of the water formed before the star ...

Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust and serve a vital purpose in star formation. Eos, a crescent-shaped gas cloud, is located about 300 light years away from Earth and is the size of 40 ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...