“These fragments may be the remains of once-larger clouds that have been shredded by the enormous energy being released by young and massive stars, a process dubbed feedback,” says Tony Wong, who led ...

An amateur astrophotographer has brought to light a breathtaking view of a distant stellar nursery. Using custom-built gear ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently peered into one-third of a unique nebula. The revolutionary telescope studies the cosmos in the infrared, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

A recent laser trial at theEuropean Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile marks a groundbreaking step in the field of optical ...

This new image from JWST also reveals for the first time the full extent of the nebula's lobes, or the spider's "legs", seen ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest. When you ...

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly visitor soaring through the Milky Way - a winged cloud of gas and dust that looks like a ...

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...