Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning red image of the Tarantula Nebula. it is a star-forming region in the Large ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Gaia is an astrometry mission that's built an impressive map of the Milky Way by taking three trillion observations of two ...

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

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...