“These fragments may be the remains of once-larger clouds that have been shredded by the enormous energy being released by young and massive stars, a process dubbed feedback,” says Tony Wong, who led ...

A colossal cloud of gas and dust resembling a flying bat has been photographed soaring across the southern sky by the Very ...

An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

Stars like our Sun turn into red giants as they run out of hydrogen to fuse at their core. As the star continues to age, it ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest. When you ...

"These findings could significantly alter our perception of planetary dynamics and the diversity of planetary systems in our universe." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

As best the origins of Earth are understood, we're all just a bunch of stardust, and new observations from the JWST lend credence to that theory.

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...