The objects were in the same region of the sky but were 13,000 light-years apart and not related to each other. The details ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.

Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

To explore the early days—or the early hundreds of thousands of years to be more correct—of star formation, Brandt Gaches and colleagues decided to create detailed simulations. "The main ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Since the stars detected by the team with the telescope are about 13 billion years old, they can serve as "fossil records" of star formation that occurred at earlier times. "Essentially ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

Ohio State astronomy professor Adam Leroy is the 2025 recipient of the Henry Draper Medal. The Henry Draper Medal, established in 1886, is awarded every four years to a researcher or pair of ...