Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbors, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, ...

A bold new era in astronomy is on the horizon. By 2029, Schmidt Sciences, the philanthropic foundation founded by former ...

Astronomers have been given a new and incredibly detailed look at a very familiar astronomical object thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The new JWST image shows the Helix Nebula, the ...

Within the image, thick clouds of cold hydrogen gas arrange themselves into ridges and wispy filaments. The deep red tones ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

NASA said that while the mystery of the Circinus galaxy’s excess emissions has been solved, there are billions of black holes ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...

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Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a "relic" or remnant of early galaxy formation, NASA said. This discovery marks the first confirmed detection of such an object in the ...