Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

A team led by astronomers at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia (U.S.) have, for the first time, robustly detected semi-heavy water ice ...

The surrounding material—the “bun”—is made of dust and gas above and below the disk that is illuminated by the protostar’s light.

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the universe since its launch. This new image of the protostar HH30 is in amazing new detail thanks to the JWST. It was ...

Dr. Michelle Thaller showcased the James Webb Space Telescope’s breathtaking image of a 100,000-year-old protostar. Enveloped in gas and dust, the protostar’s hourglass shape, vibrant clouds ...

The protostar is the source of an unusual asymmetric, double-sided jet, visible here in blue. See the full advent calendar here, where a new image will be revealed each day until December 25.

The new exoplanet, known as TIDYE-1b, is a gas giant that orbit very close to its host protostar. The pair is surrounded by a misaligned protoplanetary disk and a distant companion star.

Disk and accretion of matter within a binary protostar observed with the ALMA radio telescope. This binary protostar, different from V347 Aur (whose brown dwarf companion is 10 times less massive than ...