A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming ...

NASA’s Hubble telescope has captured rare images of newborn stars hidden inside dusty cosmic clouds, revealing how massive suns form, grow and shape the future of our galaxy.

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

At the heart of our galaxy lies a cosmic puzzle: although the Galactic Center is packed with star-making material, massive stars form there surprisingly slowly. Using NASA's retired SOFIA observatory, ...

From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning ...

Gigantic black holes lurk at the center of virtually every galaxy, including ours, but we've lacked a precise picture of what ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

The very first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than scientists thought — potentially explaining why we can't find evidence of them today. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Astronomers have discovered how "forever young" stars stay blue and bright despite being almost as old as the universe.