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

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

Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In a preprint paper ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

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

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