Young stars need time to grow into their final masses before they begin fusing lighter elements into heavier elements as main ...

"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

January doesn’t skimp on cosmic sightseeing. The month begins with a vibrant supermoon, continues with the year’s best Jupiter view, and ends with multiple moon-planet conjunctions. Aurora activity ...

January is the best time of the year to see the Great Orion Nebula as it climbs high overhead in the winter sky. Look to the ...

WASHINGTON — For the first time ever, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a "failed galaxy," a massive, starless cloud of gas and dark matter that never became a galaxy at all, according to ...

Astronomers reckon they've stumbled upon "Cloud 9" in the cosmos. Researchers wielding the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified an extraordinary astronomical phenomenon - a starless, ...

A team of researchers discovered a new type of astronomical object that may help experts learn more about the formation of galaxies and the development of the early universe. NASA dubbed the object ...