The New Year of 2026 began at the stroke of midnight today, and four minutes later the brightest star in the sky, Sirius in ...

A young star in the constellation Perseus has just rewritten the script for how stars are born. Astronomers mapping its surroundings in three dimensions uncovered an intricate stack of more than 400 ...

Each ring is formed in the aftermath of an explosion, giving insight into the dynamic activity of SVS 13 from its infancy. An ...

A groundbreaking discovery published in Nature Astronomy has revealed a cosmic phenomenon that may finally settle a ...

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

A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.

The NGC 2264 is a vast stellar complex located in the Monoceros constellation, about 2,600 light-years away. It includes two ...

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree.

Since then, astronomers have observed all manner of lensing caused by all manner of bodies—perhaps none as visually striking ...

The object captured here by the Hubble Space Telescope is a reflection nebula, identified as GN 04.32.8. Reflection nebulae are clouds of dust in space that don't emit their own light, as other ...

November’s night skies are grand, festive and bright in many places, quiet and contemplative in others. Both tempers are shown at once: the noisy, showy Milky Way crowds the north with its starry ...