Stars like our sun are formed from the collapse of stellar objects called prestellar cores, cold and dense concentrations of ...

How does a new star begin? It is a question astronomers have been trying to answer for decades. Now, scientists have observed ...

An international team with major participation from he Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has, for the first time, detected an observational signature of ambipolar diffusion in a ...

This process weakens magnetic support, allowing the core to collapse and eventually form a protostar. Credit: Yurika Nakamura ...

Stars like our Sun are formed from the collapse of stellar objects called prestellar cores, cold and dense concentrations of gas and ...

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ...