A star's first step toward life may be quieter than astronomers once imagined. Researchers studying a dark cloud in Taurus ...

A strange "chirping" signal from a distant, dying star has revealed the birth of a magnetar — one of the most magnetic ...

Lower panel shows a collapsing plasma cloud with uniform magnetic field (red).Top Right: Compression alone amplifies the field. Bottom Right: Collapse-driven turbulence accelerates dynamo ...

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 ...

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 ...