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

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

A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...

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

"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe is even more challenging." ...

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 ...

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

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

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

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Jupiter and Mars are high overhead, and they’re both bright enough to stand out. Jupiter looks like the second brightest star ...