England must wait to secure qualification for the World Cup knockout phase as they are held to a draw by Ghana at Boston ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising force that may help explain how binary star systems form so quickly. New supercomputer simulations show that magnetic fields surrounding newborn stars can act ...

A new set of supercomputer simulations published June 5, 2026 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has provided the most quantitatively precise confirmation yet of why binary star ...

At the heart of our galaxy lies a cosmic puzzle: although the Galactic Center is packed with star-making material, massive stars form there surprisingly slowly. Using NASA's retired SOFIA observatory, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope turned toward Orion Molecular Clouds 2, a star-forming region 1,280 light-years away where ...

For this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month, we return to the constellation Orion (the Hunter), a location familiar to Webb. This area of the sky is replete with star-forming ...

Astronomers have employed the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to perform deep spectroscopic observations of a peculiar spiral galaxy known as W2246f. Results ...

Terzan 5 is a globular cluster with some unusual properties that have led a team of astronomers to suspect that it is more ...

With The Mandalorian and Grogu likely on its way to becoming the lowest-grossing Star Wars movie ever, attention will soon shift to next summer's Star Wars: Starfighter. Can it "save" a big-screen ...

A single infrared frame from the James Webb Space Telescope now shows young stars at every recognized stage of formation, ...

A stunning new image released by NASA on March 19, 2026, reveals Westerlund 2, a cluster of stars glowing in neon pink, nestled within one of the Milky Way’s most active stellar nurseries. Captured ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Jaspreet Singh Randhawa, a Mississippi State assistant professor of physics, has received a prestigious CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to support a $700,000 ...