"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided unprecedented details about the Andromeda galaxy's history and characteristics.

Dive into a celestial masterpiece with the Hubble Space Telescope's latest snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud, showcasing ...

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is much larger than the Hubble and instead of orbiting the Earth, operates from a stationary ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth’s point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.