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...

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...

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....

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...