The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

A recent image from the Hubble telescope offers us a dive into the heart of N159, an immense stellar nursery where the cosmic ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

Observations of ultra-massive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion stars, show that less than 2 billion years ...

Gas cloud collisions during galaxy mergers compress interstellar material, triggering new star formation, as observed in interacting systems studied by NASA and reported by Universe Today.

Zoom into the James Webb Space Telescope's view of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud known as NGC 346.

Like the Sun shining through the clouds in the early morning, a bright star within the star-forming nebula N79 appears to burst forth through a web of cooler gas and dust in this image taken by the ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling around 27 infant stars—evidence that planets start taking shape just a few ...

Archival ALMA data revealed a large, expanding bubble near the protoplanetary disk of the young star WSB 52, located approximately 441 light-years away. The bubble's formation is hypothesized to ...