"Ophion is filled with stars that are set to rush out across the galaxy in a totally haphazard, uncoordinated way, which is ...

Stars in the Milky Way tend to form in families, with similar stars springing to life in roughly the same place at roughly ...

As humans do from their parents' homes and birds do from their nests, stars leave their so-called stellar nurseries once they ...

By examining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia space probe, which were gathered from 2021 to 2022, the team ...

Stars are born in families before dispersing, but we have never seen one that has broken up anything like this fast.

The Gaia spacecraft ended its remarkable mission ... Having already dispersed a fair way, the Milky Way as background and some dust blocking our view presumably didn’t help.

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.