"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe ...

Between spotting galaxies that shouldn't exist, capturing the interstellar medium with unprecedented clarity, and identifying ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

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NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

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

RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

When we join him next month, King will be freshly arrived from Norway, where he’s leading a Roads Scholar trip to see the ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...