Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars. The post ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...