A computational model of the early-to-present-day Universe predicts that some of the first stars formed in structures that challenge conventional classification. Read the paper: The emergence of ...

Warm mid-August summer nights offer prime conditions for spotting three magnificent star clusters visible to northern-hemisphere skywatchers in the coming months. Star clusters are gravitationally ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared instruments on the spiral galaxy NGC 628, producing the first spectroscopic survey of young star clusters still embedded in the dust clouds where ...