A massive star on the distant outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy is seen blowing a powerful cosmic blowtorch in a new image ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Thousands of newborn stars sparkle and dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA’s Webb Space ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

One of the boldest dreams in modern astronomy is the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. These exoplanets ...

"Breathtaking" images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are revealing intricate details about how stars and planetary systems form. The images, released ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a "failed star," or brown dwarf, nicknamed "The ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The open star cluster NGC 460 is located within a greater collection of nebulae and star clusters ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Why has silicon, one of the most common elements in the universe, gone largely undetected in the atmospheres of Jupiter, ...

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For centuries, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of one of the universe's oldest and densest stellar systems, known ...