How could the Universe form such dense and extremely hot structures only 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang? This question ...

Just as people of the same age can vary greatly in appearance and shape, so do collections of stars or stellar aggregates. New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that ...

"Even if old, NGC 1386 keeps rejuvenating itself." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have spotted thousands of young ...

A trio of massive, young star clusters found embedded in a star cloud may shed light on the formation of super-star clusters and globular clusters. The discovery, made with images taken with the ...

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant progress in understanding how three-dimensional (3D) layered structures form ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) confirmed earlier Hubble Space Telescope findings indicating that planet formation around low-metallicity stars, prevalent in the early universe ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted six likely rogue worlds—objects with planetlike masses but untethered from any star's gravity—including the lightest ever identified with a dusty disk around ...

Christmas-themed imagery knows no bounds, not even in space. NASA has drawn comparison between a celestial formation and a holiday wreath, referring to the recently spotted star and dust cloud cluster ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a nearby ultra-diffuse galaxy designated F8D1. The new observations, presented July 17 on the pre-print server arXiv, deliver ...