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

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.

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

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a runaway supermassive black hole. Video Credit: Black Hole Animation NASA’s ...

NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth.

Now, though, using an instrument called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument or DESI, scientists have discovered a trove ...

Last week, we discussed the Dog Star, Sirius, the sky’s brightest star. Orbiting Sirius is a faint companion, a tiny star known informally as the Pup.

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...