The Orion Nebula, about 1,500 light-years away, is a star nursery where enough gas and dust exist to form roughly 200,000 ...

"Even though it's the first time we've seen a galaxy like this, we think that there could be many more out there." ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

Researchers are uncovering the origins of cosmic rays, linking them to mysterious cosmic accelerators called PeVatrons New research from astrophysicists at Michigan State University may bring scientis ...

New findings bolster the natural origin theory for comet 3I/Atlas. An observatory in South Africa detected radio frequency ...

In the silent expanse of space, a celestial butterfly made of stardust unfurls its radiant wings. The Butterfly Nebula – a ...

The European Space Agency telescope used its infrared instruments to see through dark cloud LDN 1641, in the constellation Orion, around 1300 light-years away from Earth ...

The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

New analysis shows that the Pleiades cluster constitutes the core of a much larger structure of related stars that are ...

The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has captured interstellar cloud Lupus 3. A pair of young stars can bee ...