Stars are born in stellar nurseries, molecular clouds of cold gas and dust. These clouds contain many times the mass of a ...

White dwarfs are the remnants of once-sunlike stars that have burned through their nuclear fuel. These stripped-down cores ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a group of massive galaxies, located about 11 billion light-years away, that have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed 20-year-old Hubble observations that could finally explain how ancient stars can ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

NASA says a recently spotted star cluster bears an uncanny resemblance to a holiday wreath and have named it "cosmic wreath" as a result.