A team of University of Florida researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture photos of a star-forming region ...

Chinese astronomers have found a pair of young star clusters formed within a circumgalactic high-velocity cloud on the outskirts of the Milky Way—the first direct evidence of star formation in such an ...

Westerhaut 51 is the unassuming name of a vast "star factory" 17,000 light years from Earth. 350 light years across, it ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Belfiore, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team The Virgo Cluster holds literally thousands of galaxies, many of which are big, bright, and beautiful. NGC 4535 checks two of ...

A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Month image. IC 486 ...

Baby stars release excess energy by ejecting magnetic “sneezes,” forming giant warm gas rings, new ALMA observations reveal.

CHENGDU -- Chinese astronomers have identified a pair of young, blue "baby star clusters" on the outskirts of the Milky Way, approximately 45,000 light-years from Earth. They have named the twin ...

Astronomers discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way using Gaia data, offering new clues about galaxy formation ...

Planets are born from the rotating disk of gas and dust that surrounds a star in its youth. While it is commonly accepted ...

Full focus: Problem-solving energises Ong. THE thrill of problem-solving has always energised Ong Kien Hooi. As a schoolboy, he enjoyed working out equations in mathematics, his favourite subject.