If you haven’t thought of our neighboring galaxies as sparkly, think again. NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

A young star in the constellation Perseus has just rewritten the script for how stars are born. Astronomers mapping its ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Hubble Space Telescope captured two young stars named HOPS 150, which glows a bright golden ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in the Large Magellanic Cloud — a dwarf galaxy orbiting our own. The ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy 160,000 light-years away, is one of the Milky Way’s closest neighbours.

Day 4 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Star Birth in the Lobster Nebula. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged a region where the radiation and winds from a group of superhot ...

"In space, not everything is what it seems." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A dazzling new image from the European Southern ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope have recently released a breathtaking new image of NGC 2835, a spiral galaxy located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. This latest photo, ...