This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

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

Images from ALMA telescope provide insight to the earlier years of our universe.

Researchers at Kyushu University have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from “fluffy” molecular clouds.

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

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

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

SOFIA captures the magnetic field lines shaping the Keyhole Nebula, revealing hidden forces at play in the Carina Nebula.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...