"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

Astronomers analyzing archived NASA data have stumbled upon a cosmic event unlike anything seen before—a brief but intense ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...

Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...

Stars emerge from vast regions of gas and dust known as molecular clouds. These stellar nurseries, often spanning hundreds of ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...