The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

ESA's Gaia star surveying satellite launches ... biggest and most precise map of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might appear to an outside observer.

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

The research sheds light on the violent births and deaths of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Stars tend to form within what scientists call "molecular clouds," or regions of space containing dense ...