Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies, studying ...

From this vantage point looking at the Milky Way from its edge, the galactic bulge might appear as a glowing orb of stars, ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the enormous structure appears turbulent and oddly lopsided, with towering ...

The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for ...

Multi-star system FS Tau captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. "Jets emerge from the cocoon of a forming star to blast ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists peek into the secrets of galactic evolution — and the view is stunning, ...

A fresh look at the Trifid Nebula shows a dynamic region where powerful stellar winds continue to spark new stars into life.

That extends to planets, too. Young stars form with disks of gas and dust around them, and those disks birth planets. If a ...

The Hubble telescope has obtained detailed images of the largest known protoplanetary disk, a structure surrounding a young ...

On its 36th anniversary, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Trifid Nebula, providing new insights on a familiar star-forming region.

Rapid cluster emergence: Webb and Hubble observations show massive star clusters clear their natal gas in about five million years, influencing their surroundings sooner. Galactic evolution link: The ...