How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic ...

The Double Cluster (NGC 869 and NGC 884, also known as h and χ Persei) is a visually striking pair of star clusters visible to the naked eye, documented since at least 130 BC. Located approximately ...

This one-million-year-old star-forming region contains thousands of new stars and hundreds of planetary mass objects floating freely in the nebula, not orbiting stars. A groundbreaking study published ...

For generations, astronomers have pondered the origins of globular clusters, which are among the universe’s oldest and ...

A study published in Science Advances sheds new light on the mysterious origins of free-floating planetary-mass objects (PMOs ...