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

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

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

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

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

Dominant cosmological theories posit that stars are formed in molecular clouds that are sufficiently large and dense that it ...

Scientists have seen a powerful explosion from a mysterious, unknown object in space. Researchers do not know where the ...

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 ...

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

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

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