How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are.

Our sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the ...

"Red star-forming galaxies primarily produce low-mass stars, making them appear red despite ongoing star birth," he said. "This theory was developed to address inconsistencies with the traditional ...

Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A white dwarf star is basically the corpse of a low-mass star that lost its outer layers. That can happen when a star runs out its fuel supply needed to ...

A white dwarf star is basically the corpse of a low-mass star that lost its outer layers. That can happen when a star runs out its fuel supply needed to maintain nuclear fusion reactions happening ...

The newly discovered exoplanet, named Gaia-4b, has an orbital period of 570 days and a mass of 12 Jupiter masses and orbits a star 64% of the mass of the sun. Not only is Gaia-4b the first planet ...

Low-mass rocky planets—those that fall within the "habitable zone" of their star (that distance range wherein liquid water could exist)—are good candidates for life. Even though these specific ...

Some galaxies that should have ceased forming stars long ago are defying expectations. Anew theory proposes the existence of ...