According to the standard theory of star formation, stars are formed in cloudy nebulas and shortly after their birth they consume most of the gas that is present at their birthplace. The surrounding dust and gas can now be used to...

For the first time a team of Swedish, Canadian, Finnish and French scientists have discovered the presence of molecular oxygen in interstellar space. This new discovery can make scientists understand the formation of stars in interstellar...

The high desert of Chile will soon be witnessing the largest ground-based astronomy project on its soil. The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) costs $1 billion. Find how things wee like 1 billion years after the Big Bang. This project will...

The recipe for creating a star in one of these stellar nurseries calls for hydrogen gas, dust, and some amount of heat and gravity, astronomers claim. But they still don’t know quite how all the parts come together or what triggers the event....