A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by astronomers using artificial intelligence. This incredibly powerful and fleeting ...

Caldwell 103 is a treasure of the southern night sky. Also cataloged as NGC 2070 and often called the Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus, this chimerical structure is nestled in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...

Stars form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), vast clouds of mostly hydrogen that can span tens of light years. These stellar ...

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

Stars emerge from vast regions of gas and dust known as molecular clouds. These stellar nurseries, often spanning hundreds of ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

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

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 ...