Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

Mysterious planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could be created when young star systems clash. They aren't ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

Orion Nebula (Mike Lynch) If your optics are powerful ... The trouble, though, is that these potential planets may not come into being. Stellar winds gusting over 5 million mph are constantly ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...