To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ESA/Hubble released a breathtaking new image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of astronomers over the centuries. Originally discovered in the 1700s by ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been ...

In a star’s core, fusion takes terrific temperature and pressure that is provided by the crushing gravity of the star’s ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made the first direct observation of star clusters colliding and merging at the hearts of dwarf galaxies. The discovery could help scientists ...

When the planet finally fell in toward the star, it splashed away layers of gas from the star’s outer atmosphere, and this gas gradually cooled into cold dust which now sits as a cloud around the star ...

Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Its rings, which are only detected in infrared ...

Black holes come in a range of sizes. Stellar mass black holes form from the collapse of massive stars, typically weighing ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday, April 14, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The ...