The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

This image shows the massive stars WR 25 and Tr16-244 in the Trumpler 16 cluster, within the Carina Nebula. WR 25 is the brightest, with Tr16-244 nearby, and a low-mass star to the left. This image ...

Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, this image centers on the spiral galaxy IC 4633. Situated about 8,000 light-years from Earth, the star cluster Pismis 24 is embedded within the ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has transformed astronomy, capturing breathtaking views of the universe. Here are 10 of its most iconic images.