One of the most captivating events in the universe is the birth of a star an event that transforms clouds of gas and dust into a brilliant celestial body. But how do we know when a new star is ...

Astronomers have observed primordial material that may be giving birth to three planetary systems around a binary star in unprecedented detail. Bringing together three decades of study, an ...

How does the birth of stars form a nebula like this ... from the stars (similar to the distance of Voyager 1 from our sun), the magnetic field has a distinct 45-degree counter-clockwise kink.