Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

Space scientists have unveiled a cosmic bouquet in time for Valentine's Day. The new image includes data from several ...

The protoplanetary disk is actually a Herbig-Haro object dubbed HH 30. Such objects are glowing regions in space that contain ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Scientists have discovered the most powerful ghost particle, 30 times more energetic than any detected on Earth, using a ...

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

Its cosmic corsage tells a story of death and rebirth. Within a few million years — a blink of an eye in the universe’s life — the gas and dust will either become budding young stars and planetary ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...

A huge detector in the Mediterranean Sea spotted the most energetic neutrino from space to date. The particle could shed light on the universe’s most extreme phenomena.