"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In a preprint paper ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.

The Orion Nebula, a nursery for new stars, is showcased in this breathtaking image, with young stars and protostars shining ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and busiest star-creating areas in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

Beauty Of Tarantula Nebula This nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most active star-forming regions, filled ...

Caldwell 71, or NGC 2477, is an open star cluster. Open clusters are loosely bound collections of stars. It is located roughly 4,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...