Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars. The post ...