"It appears that there is a preferred physical environment in which stars form when they evolve within these clouds." ...

The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the ...

The Orion Nebula, the Hyades and the Pleiades are visible to the naked eye. The star clusters are obviously examples of different stages of development.

Orion, Pleiades, and Hyades may be stages of one star system’s life, revealing how star clusters form and change.

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

A recent study suggests a shared origin for the Orion Nebula, Pleiades and Hyades, challenging previous astronomical theories ...

Large pairs of planets thought to orbit each other without a star, do not exist after all. That conclude Leiden researchers, ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

It's the earliest stage of planet formation ever seen by scientists. The new planetary system is taking shape around HOPS-315 ...

Astronomers today said they had observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, ...

The nebula is about 1,350 light-years from Earth, and it likely represents a good example of the type of place our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago, according to NASA.