The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

T he U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

NASA’s Mars rover has spotted something out of this world — a mysterious, skull-shaped elevation – sitting on a slope where star-gazers say it doesn’t belong. The mysterious rock ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously ...

On the left is the starburst galaxy M82 as observed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. The small box at the galaxy’s core corresponds to the area captured so far by the NIRCam (Near ...

This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and shows a starburst galaxy named MCG+07-33-027. This galaxy lies some 300 million light-years away ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of NGC 4536, a starburst galaxy brimming with intense stellar activity. Located 50 million light-years away in the Virgo ...

Starburst galaxies contain regions where stars form at such a breakneck speed that the galaxy devours its gas supply faster than it can be replenished, NASA and the European Space Agency said in ...