The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...

Most have been found via microlensing: their gravity acts as a lens that boosts the light of a background star in a ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

LONDON — Astronomers have found possible chemical signs of life on a distant planet outside our solar system, though they ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large ...