Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

Astronomers in Chile say they have captured the first close-up image of a star outside our galaxy. “For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from ... The new JWST image captures an up-close, face-on ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly observed star clusters merging at the cores of dwarf galaxies—a process long ...

A bright star located about 10,000 light-years from Earth overlaps with the bright core of a more distant galaxy, NGC 5530, which is located 40 million light-years from Earth. | Credit ...

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarf stars locked in a tight orbital ... but here we know that the explosion will light up our side of the galaxy," Munday said.

Hubble snapped a gorgeous image of a distant galaxy called NGC 2906. NGC 2906 has an abundance of massive young stars that shine brightly as they burn through their fuel. The galaxy is a whopping ...

You can see them when you look to the sky as areas with lots of stars close together ... breathing ball of gas -- cooling down and heating up -- with slight changes in brightness.