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

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

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

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars.

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...