The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...

A mysterious, one-off flash of energy from an unknown object outside the Milky Way has left astronomers puzzled. The research ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

Stars emerge from vast regions of gas and dust known as molecular clouds. These stellar nurseries, often spanning hundreds of ...

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...