Arp 282: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space ...

Astronomers have discovered that many infant stars born in stellar nurseries of the early universe may have preferred "fluffy" stellar blankets.

A newly discovered galaxy is challenging what scientists thought they knew about galactic collisions. Located 567 million ...

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 ...

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

The Einstein Probe was launched in January 2024 to study the high-energy universe, and among its instruments is its ...

Sgr A* possesses roughly 4 million times the mass of our sun and is located about 26,000 light-years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion ...

This Hubble image shows part of planetary nebula Caldwell 2 (NGC 40). Gas is expanding from the central star, which is at the ...

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