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

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

This barred spiral galaxy NGC 2283 exhibits a bright central bar of stars encircled by loosely wound swirling arms that have bright regions of densely-packed star clusters and clouds of ...

The researchers used data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory that has tracked more than a billion stars in our galaxy with unprecedented precision. There are 21 known ...

A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canis Major, this barred spiral ...