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 ...

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

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has excited astronomers. It went unnoticed for years within a vast, two decade-long ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...