Our sun is a bit of an outlier in the general stellar population. We typically think of stars as being solitary wanderers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Northwestern University/UT Austin) Astrophysicists have developed an astonishingly realistic model of how stars form called the ...

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 ...

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open clusters closely associated both in position and kinematics. They provide ...