"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown dwarfs form and evolve.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

The Eagle Nebula (M16) is a star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy. It's home to the famous "Pillars of Creation" and is located in the constellation Serpens. The Eagle Nebula is a giant ...

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Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

Some were gaseous, star-forming regions, such as the Orion nebula ... were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was ...

Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...

From supermassive black holes to vibrant star clusters and nebulae, check out these 7 mesmerizing cosmic images captured by ...

Dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way, for example, either stopped forming stars billions of years ago, or have only recently ...