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

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

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

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 ...

This striking Hubble Space Telescope image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The glittering globular cluster Terzan 12 ...

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

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

A planetary nebula in Sagittarius, 3000 light-years away, features waves 100 billion kilometres high, caused by supersonic shocks from a hot star's stellar winds. Hubble's image of the Carina Nebula ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a globular cluster known as NGC 104 — or, more commonly, 47 Tucanae, since ...

Carl Sagan famously said, "We are made of star-stuff," but even he didn't realize just how far that star stuff traveled ...